American Miscellaneous Society

The American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC – 1952 to 1964) was an informal group made up of the more eccentric members of the US scientific community.

Gulf Oil Corporation chaired the AMSOC Mohole subcommittee from 1962 to 1963.^[2] The society dissolved itself in 1964.^[3]

References

^ The deepest hole we have ever dug, BBC, Mark Piesing, 6 May 2019
^ "Hollis Dow Hedberg (1903–1988)" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences Organization. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
ISBN 0881353728
. Retrieved July 4, 2018.

Further reading

Why the Mohole: Adventures in Inner Space, 1964, William J. Cromie, 230 pp.

External links

History of the Mohole Project and the AMSOC by the National Academy of Sciences

The Albatross Award of the American Miscellaneous Society by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives

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[1] The deepest hole we have ever dug, BBC, Mark Piesing, 6 May 2019

[Holl-2] "Hollis Dow Hedberg (1903–1988)" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences Organization. Retrieved 9 June 2013.

[Van_Keuren-3] ISBN 0881353728
. Retrieved July 4, 2018.

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