My journey to the center of the Earth:A tribute to Professor Donald V.Helmberger

• 作者: Xiaodong Song
• 来源期刊: 地震学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: Special Memorial Issue for Donald Vincent Helmberger
• 页码范围: 34-39
• 页数: 6页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

It has been more than a year since Don passed away suddenly.Thinking about it still makes my heart hurt.I did not know Don Helmberger or any other famous geophysicists before joining the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech in 1989.In fact,I had barely heard of the Seismo Lab before I landed there,to some extent,by chance or pure luck.At the time,graduate applications were filed by paper.A fellow student gave me a Caltech application form,as he thought he was not good enough,and encouraged me to apply instead.Despite the lack of information at the time and my own ignorance,I took the opportunity.Little did I know,my academic journey had begun at that moment.