Geomorphologist Robert P. Sharp Hand Signed TLS Dated 1973

  

Sharp Hand Signed TLS Dated 1973. 1911 - 25 May 2004 was an American. Sharp served as the chairman of the Division of. (Caltech) from 1952 to 1968. He built the modern department and especially.

Published heavily in glacial terrain the. Sharp retired in 1979 but continued leading geological. Field trips afterwards with emphasis on the. Robert Sharp was a member of the United.

Sharp was honored by Caltech as the. First named professorship in geology: the Robert Phillip Sharp Chair in. Sharp was a native son of. Attended Caltech as an undergraduate, beginning in 1930, earning a bachelor's.

Degree (1934) in geology, and master's degree (1935) in geology. Caltech, he was quarterback on the football team.

A doctorate (1938) in geology under Professor. As an analyst in the Arctic, Desert and.

Tropical Information Center and achieved the rank of. World War II, Sharp performed extensive field work in the.

Of the Alaskan Peninsula, simultaneously. Of several islands, which he published. In the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Instructor in geology at the. Before World War II, then. Briefly an Assistant Professor of Geology at the. As soon as possible, Caltech's Division Chairman Ian Campbell. Arranged for Sharp to return home to Caltech as a full professor in 1947. Remained at Caltech for the next half-century, and was quickly promoted to the. Chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences, later renamed to the Division. Of Geological and Planetary Sciences. While at Caltech, Sharp mentored dozens.

Of doctoral students in field. These are now working at the United States. In leading geology departments throughout. Sharp became a published expert on the glacial. Geomorphology of the Sierra Nevada range, the Trinity Alps of northwestern.

California, the Olympic Peninsula of. In the winter season, he. Focused his geological field work in the Mojave Desert of. With emphasis on the geomorphology of. And the sliding stones on the. Robert Phillip Sharp was an expert on the.

Physics of blown sand and the formation of. The Mojave Desert and the. He was awarded the Kirk Bryan Award by. For his scholarly publications on the geomorphology of. Sand dunes in desert terrain.

Professor Sharp loved weekend field trips, and so. He authored a number of field books in geology of.

While in his sixties, Sharp continued to teach. Rigorous field geology to Caltech geology students during summer classes. Geology classes were taught at.

After retiring from Caltech, Sharp and his wife. Jean moved their home from. Lived for two decades in a custom-built house on Gibraltar Road overlooking. Jean Sharp are survived by two adult children, Bruce Sharp and Christy Sharp.