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Doll came to the United States in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1962. His marriage with Annette Schlumberger ended in divorce. His second wife was the ballerina Eugenia Delarova, who was once married to the choreographer Léonide Massine. References. Wayback Machine; Search Results - Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary; Obituary in New York ...
Its corporate headquarters were in Syosset, New York, which were later moved to Mountain View, California when Lester Hogan assumed control of Fairchild Semiconductor. Fairchild Systems. In 1979, Fairchild Camera and Instrument (including Fairchild Semiconductor) became a subsidiary of Schlumberger.
The building at 844 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, California, where the first commercially practical integrated circuit was invented. In 1955, William Shockley founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, funded by Beckman Instruments in Mountain View, California; [6] his plan was to develop a new type of "4-layer diode" that would work faster and have more uses than then-current transistors.
Allaud, Louis A., and Martin, Maurice H., 1977, Schlumberger, the history of a technique, John Wiley and Sons, New York. 333 p. ISBN 0-471-01667-5 , ISBN 978-0-471-01667-0 Hilchie, Douglas W., 1990, Wireline, a history of the well logging and perforating business in the oil fields, Privately published, Boulder, Colorado, 200 pp.
The new company was called Transocean Offshore. The new company began building massive drilling operations with drills capable of going to 10,000 feet (as opposed to 3,000 feet at the time) and operating two drill operations on the same ship. Its first ship, Discoverer Enterprise, cost nearly US$430 million and was 834 ft (254 m). [6]
Michael D. Shellenberger (born June 16, 1971) is an American author and journalist who writes about politics, the environment, climate change, and nuclear power. He is a co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition. [1]
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger (20 January 1853 – 23 October 1924) was a French campaigner for pronatalism, alcoholic abstinence, and feminism. She was the president of the French Union for Women's Suffrage ( Union française pour le suffrage des femmes / UFSF) movement. [ 1 ]
Tiffany & Company, Union Square, Manhattan, storage area with porcelain, c. 1887 Tiffany & Co. was founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young, [15] in New York City, as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium", with the help of Charles Tiffany's father, who financed the store for only $1,000 with profits from a cotton mill. [16]