Simon left Lamont in 1967 for the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), where she was hired as a research assistant and earned a master’s degree under the supervision of Paul Winston. However, he and others also offer warm recollections of visits to Simon’s home, which sat on a couple of acres in the then largely undeveloped town of New City in Rockland County, where Simon had a pair of woolly and wise lawnmowers-two sheep, by Sykes’s recollection named Socrates and Plato-who kept the grass trimmed. Sykes describes Simon as “no nonsense,” with no time for foolishness at work. Lynn Sykes, who arrived in 1960, recalls the excitement of this key era in seismology: In addition to Ruth, the small group also included Lee Alsop, who was working on records from the 1960 Chilean earthquake. Working from her desk in Lamont Hall, she read the records and made calculations to determine distance as well as M s. Simon came to the job with expertise in the interpretation of a different sort of wiggly line: she had experience interpreting electrocardiograms. She also prepared the monthly seismic bulletin under the supervision of Frank Press. Simon’s job at Lamont involved reading the large volume of seismographic records that were collected on a daily basis from a diverse assortment of instruments, including Wood-Anderson, Benioff long- and short-period, and Press-Ewing seismometers. Simon joined the Seismological Society of America in 1957 and remained a member until 2003. Ruth took her first job in seismology at Lamont Geological Observatory (known today as Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) in the late 1950s-out of necessity, former colleagues recall, after she was divorced from John and left supporting two children.
Simon, to launch a trail-blazing career as a researcher in seismology. It neglected to mention, however, that he may have unwittingly provided the impetus for his first wife, Ruth B.
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Simon, a paid obituary in the New York Times described his professional accomplishments. Following the 1999 death of physician John L.
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