Elizabeth Noble Shor

Career at Scripps When the Shors arrived at Scripps in 1953, the Scripps community was small and close knit. The Scripps population in 1952, including scientists, staff, and students, numbered 415 people and Roger Revelle was director. Shor joined the lively wives support group Oceanids, which was to have a large impact on life at Scripps, as well as its institutions, and that of the University of California at San Diego when it was founded a decade later. After his death in 1979 she maintained his files and library, transferring them to the Scripps archives in 1980. Below continents the discontinuity is too deep to be reached by drilling, but below deep-ocean regions it is shallower. Nevertheless, deep-ocean drilling had never before been successful, and the project would have to drill an additional 3–6 miles below the sea floor to reach the Moho. The project was initially led by a group of scientists called the American Miscellaneous Society with funding from the National Science Foundation. Indeed, he was able to suggest the first suitable drilling site near Guadalupe Island, Mexico. The project suffered from political and scientific opposition, mismanagement, and cost overruns. The U.S. House of Representatives defunded it in 1966. Shor developed a lengthy chronology of the debacle. In the process of collecting material for this book, she also established the archives for the entire Scripps institution.

Personal life Shor was married to Scripps geophysicist George Shor for 59 years. Elizabeth Noble Shor, Dinner in the morning: A collection of breakfast and brunch recipes, Tofua Press (San Diego), 1977, 85 pp. Elizabeth Noble Shor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Probing the Oceans, 1936-1976, Tofua Press (San Diego), 1978, 502 pp. Marine Geophysics: A Navy Symposium, Elizabeth N. Shor and Carolyn L. Ebrahimi, eds., 1987, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Link , 20 pp. Wolf H. Berger and E. N. Shor, Ocean: Reflections on a Century of Exploration, University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles), 2009, 536 pp.