Victor Vacquier Sr. dies at 101; geophysicist was a master of magnetics
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 18:35
in Earth & Climate
Victor Vacquier Sr., a Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist who developed key instruments for mapping the Earth's magnetic fields and whose research provided a strong experimental foundation for the now widely accepted theory of plate tectonics, died of pneumonia Jan. 11 in La Jolla. He was 101.