Description
Papers include correspondence, minutes, budgets, class notes,
course files, student papers, reports, maps, and research files and pertain to his
activities as professor, department administrator, and scientist. Some papers relate to
his work with the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (AEC/NRC). There are also
papers relating to the geological investigation of the site for the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center; photographs from geology trips, 1930-1953, including the
department's summer geology field classes, 1941 and 1946-49; and an album of photo
negatives from Page's student days, 1929-32, on hiking/camping trips, geology trips,
other students, and his dorm room.
Background
Geologist. Page, a member of the Stanford class of 1933, also earned his master's degree
in 1934 and his Ph.D in 1940 at Stanford. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1943,
becoming full professor in 1952; he was head of the Geology Department from 1957-62 and
again from 1965-68. He retired in 1976. Page's special fields are structural geology and
the relationship between geological structures and plate tectonics.
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