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Dr Thomas Charles Poulter

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Birth	:	3 Mar 1897 Iowa, USA
Death	:	14 Jun 1978 California, USA
Burial	:	Forest Home Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.9534000, -91.5444000
Plot	:	block 2a lot 243
Description	:	Find A Grave contributor pmfrench... Early life He was born on March 3, 1897 to Micajah Poulter in Salem, Iowa. Early career While he was a physics professor at Iowa Wesleyan College he recognized James Van Allen as a student and put him to work, at 35 cents an hour, preparing seismic and magnetic equipment for the Antarctic Expedition. He was second in command on the Second Byrd Antarctic Mission to the South Pole with Richard E. Byrd. The Poulter Glacier was named after him by Admiral Byrd. Byrd credited him with saving his life as the expedition leader approached death from carbon monoxide poisoning. After... Read More	Find A Grave contributor pmfrench... Early life He was born on March 3, 1897 to Micajah Poulter in Salem, Iowa. Early career While he was a physics professor at Iowa Wesleyan College he recognized James Van Allen as a student and put him to work, at 35 cents an hour, preparing seismic and magnetic equipment for the Antarctic Expedition. He was second in command on the Second Byrd Antarctic Mission to the South Pole with Richard E. Byrd. The Poulter Glacier was named after him by Admiral Byrd. Byrd credited him with saving his life as the expedition leader approached death from carbon monoxide poisoning. After his first expedition he became the Scientific Director of the Armour Research Foundation at the Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology) where he developed the Antarctic snow cruiser (a.k.a. "Penguin 1"). This device was built for and taken along on his second expedition with Admiral Byrd in 1939. Later career In 1948 he joined the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, where he remained until his death in 1978. While at SRI he did research involving dynamic phenomena including explosives weather and eventually Biosonar. He became interested in seals after visiting the Elephant Seal colony at Año Nuevo Island off the coast of California in 1961. The seal colony there included Elephant Seals, Sea Lions Harbor Seals and many others. He began studying the seal colonies in 1962 and was active in having the island protected as a biological preserve in 1967. The Poulter Laboratory at SRI International was named after him. After he retired from managing Poulter Labs he founded the Bio Sonar Lab and Marine Mammal Study Center for SRI in the Coyote Hills outside of Fremont CA. There he did research on a number of marine mammals. He was fond of them as he described in a "Note" for the Arctic. He died on June 4, 1978 in Menlo Park, California while working in his laboratory. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Poulter, accessed 1 Jan 2015

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Dr Thomas Charles Poulter's memorial is located at: Forest Home Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, USA.
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Dr Thomas Charles Poulter death on 14 Jun 1978 in California, USA
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Latitude: 40.9534000
Longitude: -91.5444000

Family Members:

Parent

Micajah Lewis Poulter

(1867 - 1929)

Alberta Viola “Allie” Pool Poulter

(1870 - 1953)

Spouse

Helen Elizabeth Gray Poulter

(1911 - 1988)

Siblings

Robert William Poulter

(1899 - 1990)

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