About John M. Wilcox
Lived 1925 – 1983 (aged 57–58). John M. Wilcox was an American geophysicist and university teacher.
John Marsh Wilcox (1925 – October 14, 1983) was an American geophysicist. He worked at the University of California, Berkeley at the Space Sciences Laboratory from 1964 to 1971. He was an adjunct professor at Stanford University from 1971 until his death.
Wilcox received his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1954 under the supervision of Burton J. Moyer. The title of his dissertation was "A direct measurement of the nuclear internal momentum distributions of protons in light nuclei."
He died while swimming off the beach of Puerto Peñasco.
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Who was John M. Wilcox?
American geophysicist
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John M. Wilcox was born in 1925 in Puerto Peñasco.
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John M. Wilcox died on 14 October 1983 in Puerto Peñasco.
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John M. Wilcox was a geophysicist and university teacher.
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John M. Wilcox was American.
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