Geophysicists Receive Filmmakers' Award For Video On Earthquakes In Holy Land

Geophysicist Receive Filmakers Award for Video On Earthquakes in Holyland UCSF'S Leonard Hayflick Awarded 1991 Sandoz Prize for Gerotological Research Judith Rodin John D. Minna Daniel F. Veber Frederick A. Murphy Esther M. Cromwell Alfred S. McLaren Amos Nur, Wayne Loel Professor of Earth Sciences and chairman of the geophysics department at Stanford University, and Chris MacAskill, a former student of Nur's who is currently manager of developer partnerships at NeXT Inc., Redwood Cit

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Amos Nur, Wayne Loel Professor of Earth Sciences and chairman of the geophysics department at Stanford University, and Chris MacAskill, a former student of Nur's who is currently manager of developer partnerships at NeXT Inc., Redwood City, Calif., have won the Silver Apple Award in Physical Sciences for their video, "The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Earthquakes in the Holy Land." The duo received the award last month at the National Educational Film and Video Festival in Oakland, Calif.

MacAskill convinced Nur to make a documentary about earthquakes in the Jordan rift zone after hearing his former professor give a presentation. "I had sort of a slide show that I showed around," ...

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