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SEATON, Stuart Luman

Born Kirkwood, Missouri, U.S.A., 16 November 1906. Education, University of Maryland, 1932-34. Electrical design draftsman, Potomac Electrical Power Co., Washington, D.C., 1922-29. Magnetic observer, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1929-46; Assistant, Watheroo Magnetic Observatory, 1935-38. B.S., University of Alaska, 1942; Sc.D. 1949. Physicist, U.S. Department of the Air Force, 1946-48. Director of the Geophysics Institute, University Alaska, 1948-50. President of Geosciences Incorporated 1950-54. Geophysics consultant 1954-57. Consultant, U.S. Continental Army Command, Ft. Monroe, 1957-62. Technical assistant, instrument research division, NASA Langley Research Center 1962-72.
  1. Characteristics of the upper region of the ionosphere. Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, 41 (1936), 173-184.
  2. Note on ionospheric disturbance of November 3 and 4, 1936. Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, 41 (1936), 407.
  3. (With L.V. Berkner and H.W. Wells) New factors in investigation of the ionosphere. American Geophysical Union. Transactions., 17 (1936), 178-182.
  4. (With H.W. Wells and H.E. Stanton) Ionospheric observations: eclipse of June 8, 1937. Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, 43 (1938), 37-40.
  5. (With J.W. Green, T.K. Hogan, L. Prior and N. Chamberlain) Note on solar eruption of October 1, 1937, at Watheroo Magnetic Observatory. Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, 43 (1938), 81.
  6. (With T.K. Hogan) Note on ionospheric disturbance at Watheroo Magnetic Observatory, June 23, 1937. Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, 43 (1938), 90.
  7. Radio fade-outs at Huancayo and Watheroo magnetic observatories, February 1937 through June 1938. Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, 43 (1938), 463-466.
  8. A final amplifier tuning-matching coupling system. QST, 22 (6) (June 1938), 36.


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