IAG President (Torge) speech during the opening of IAG 1995 General Assembly at Boulder began with mentioning of words to remember geodesists who left us since the last General Assembly. We lost fourteen as follows (i.e., 1991-1995);
Richard Anderle, USA; Arpad Czobor, Hungary; Czeslaw Kamela, Poland;
Georges Laclavère, France, Secretary General of IUGG from 1951 -1963;
Mikhail Sergevich Molodensky, Russia; Gabriel Obenson, Cameroon;
Leonard Pavlovich Pellinen, Russia; Avraam Perelmuter, Israel; Donald A. Richardson, USA;
Karl Rinner, Austria; Ove Simonsen, Denmark;
Charles Whitten, USA (b.1909 d.1994) BA Maths 1930, IAG-President from 1963 to 1967;
Helmut Wolf, Germany (b.1910), and Tadeusz Wyrzykowski, Poland.
Prof Helmut Wolf (ITG Bonn)
famous for Helmert-Wolf blocking method (read - here)
note: Helmert (1843-1917)
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