David H. Scott
David Holcomb Scott was an American geologist who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey's Center of Astrogeology in Flagstaff, Arizona. Scott was involved in the Apollo Program, and served as project chief for the Mars geologic mapping program, which was funded by NASA's Planetology Program Office. He continued to publish scientific articles on Mars through the 1990s.
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David H. Scott stands with the first geologic map of Mars, of which he is the first author | |
| Born | 1916 |
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According to Don Wilhelms in his 1993 book To a Rocky Moon:
- [The USGS Branch of Astrogeology was] able to consider hiring David Holcomb Scott, a former oil company chief geologist and chief of exploration. [Scott] came up to me after a talk I gave in February 1966 at UCLA – which he missed – and said he wanted to do something new and interesting. He hurried through his Ph.D. and in a few years took on a mapping load that three ordinary geologists could not have upheld.
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