William Lee Stokes, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Robert Miller

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Title William Lee Stokes, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Robert Miller
Alternative Title No.339, William Lee Stokes, interview by Robert Miller
Creator Stokes, William Lee, 1915-1994
Contributor Miller, Robert L.; Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1985-07-02; 1985-08-10; 1985-08-16; 1985-08-24; 1985-09-20
Collection Number and Name ACCN 0814 Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project
Finding Aid https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv48007
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Date Digital 2014-10-27
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/
Subject Stokes, William Lee, 1915-1994--Interviews; Geologists--Utah--Biography; University of Utah--Faculty--Biography; University of Utah--History
Description Transcript (221 pages) of a series of interviews by Robert Miller with William Lee Stokes, geologist and professor at the University of Utah, in July and September, 1985. This interview is no. 339 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape nos. U-336 to U-343
Abstract W. L. Stokes discusses his early life in Eastern Utah, his interest in dinosaurs and geology, graduate education at Princeton, friendship with henry Eyring, his tenure at the University of Utah in Geology, difficulties with university adminiszstration, religion at the University of Utah, the attitudes of certain General Authorities towards Science and Evolutions vs. Creationism, and the theological strengths of Mormonism. Interviewer: Robert Miller
Type Text; Sound
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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Scanning Technician Matt Wilkinson
ARK ark:/87278/s6v99wjq
Topic Geologists--Biography; University of Utah
Setname uum_elc
ID 827699
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v99wjq
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