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Norman H. Brooks Papers

Collection

Identifier: 10289-MS

Abstract Norman H. Brooks, Caltech James Irvine Professor of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Emeritus; Member of National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, taught at Caltech for over forty years. Brooks retired from teaching in 1995. The Norman H. Brooks papers illustrate Brooks' contributions to the field of fluid turbulence and diffusion and environmental fluid mechanics, particularly ocean pollution control and consist of reports, research, historical documents from...

Dates: 1930-2002

Found in: California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections / Norman H. Brooks Papers

Floods & Beaches In Southern California

Unprocessed Material

Identifier: 1986-00076

Dates: 1976-11-10

Found in: California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections

Interview with Norman H. Brooks

Digital Record

Identifier: 2019-09-27-000004

Dates: 2018-06-11 2018-06-18

Found in: California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections

Norman H. Brooks Oral History Interview, 2018-05-16, 2018-06-11, 2018-06-18

Item

Identifier: BrooksNH-OH-2018

Abstract Norman H. Brooks recalls his education at Harvard (AB 1949, mathematics; MS 1950, civil engineering); courtship of his wife, Frederika; their work in Boston settlement house; decision to come to Caltech for graduate work; teaching assistantship; attention to civil engineering curriculum. Summer job for L.A. County Sanitation Districts leads to further studies in hydrology and sedimentation with adviser Vito Vanoni. Comments on founding of Keck Laboratory of Hydraulics and Water Resources,...

Dates: 2018-05-16; 2018-06-11; 2018-06-18

Found in: California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections / OH, Caltech Oral History Interviews / Caltech faculty / Division of Engineering and Applied Science