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作者:唐纳德·斯威夫特

我第一次见到杰克·路德威克是在1966年, when I was an assistant Professor at 达尔豪斯大学 in Nova Scotia, and he was head of Geological 研究 at Gulf Oil 研究 Laboratory in Pittsburgh. I answered a want ad and was invited to the laboratory for an interview. 这次会面纯粹是路德威克式的. 杰克告诉我他和他的实验室在做什么, 继续, 以一丝不苟和详尽的细节, 直到我头晕目眩, 然后突然问我在做什么。我终于醒了过来，感觉像是一个铁陷阱在我身上哐当关上了.

据我所知，杰克的历史始于第二次世界大战，当时他是一名空军气象官, 驻扎在太平洋岛屿上. 杰克没有看到战斗. 战后, he got his degree at Scripps in the 50's from Francis Shepard, “海洋地质学之父.“那是真正的早期. There weren't any dedicated oceanographic vessels then, 所以谢泼德, 一个富有的新英格兰人, 只是买了一艘游艇. Jack, 比如弗朗西斯·谢泼德, was from a well to do background (but in California) and like him was fiercely independent; they got along well. Jack's great formative experience with Shepard was being brought up seasick, 在船的甲板上, 被给予一个现存的, 并告诉他要找到自己. In turn, every student that Jack Ludwick ever had went through this ritual.

Jack Ludwick became Director of the Institute of Oceanography at ODU in 1968. 1968年夏天，我第一次来到奥德赛大学(作为教员，我两次来到奥德赛大学), 杰克还没到那儿. 罗恩·约翰逊比我晚来了几个星期. 雅克Zaneveld was still the Director of the Institute of Oceanography. 在我到来之前，他一直是全体教员.

Jacques was a crusty old Dutchman who did not get along with the Dean of Science. 院长, 梅尔文皮特曼, 是一个带有浓重乡村口音的弗吉尼亚人, a cheerfully domineering man who rather reminded me of Nikita Kruschev. 我对这件事的记忆(我一定是把这两个人弄混了)说，他有一次脱下鞋子，砰地一声摔在桌子上, 尼基塔·赫鲁晓夫做过的事. 然后我遇到了杰克·比彻和乔治·奥菲特, 院长喜欢聪明的年轻人, 他刚把她安插到物理系. 杰克还在物理系，乔治直到最近都是我们的光学海洋学家. 无论如何, 扎内菲尔德和院长处得不好, 对院长说句公道话, Zaneveld was probably a better scientist than administrator (he was an algologist, who sent students down to dive through the Antarctic ice to find macroalgae).

院长想找一个能用新斯洛弗基金推动学院扩张的人. When he turned to Jack Ludwick he probably got both more and less than he bargained for. 情感的对比, 广阔的, 搞政治和不太圆滑的迪恩, 我的保留, 保守的, 这位温文尔雅又固执的新同事比皮特曼和扎内菲尔德之间的对比更引人注目. Jack hated being pressured 和 dean loved to coerce people. 但杰克是科学家中的科学家. The dean had hired him on the strength of his Scripp's credentials, 杰克在学业上也没有让他失望.

Jack wanted to instrument the Bay Bridge Tunnel in 1968. 他打电话给斯克里普斯的同学哈里斯·B. 斯图尔特(“斯图”)，当时是迈阿密大西洋海洋学和气象实验室的负责人. Stew's response was tepid, and I could sense Jack's frustration. 智力, 杰克知道他应该走后门，利用他的关系，但他讨厌这个过程，也不擅长. 具有讽刺意味的是, Stew, 终极政治动物, 最终, 视力残疾，半退休, as the somewhat superfluous marine science director at ODU for several years.
学生们讲了一个关于我和杰克从那时开始交往的故事，这个故事的所有细节都是错误的, 但真正捕捉到了我们性格的不同. Jack was determined to get basic science out of his "back garden," lower Chesapeake Bay.

我们在霍尔顿号上出去了, 并在沙波场安装了流速计, 我和学生们经常潜入海底视察. The story has Jack asking me to take notes as the equipment went over the side, and reports Jack's horror as I produced a book of paper matches, 撕开了盖子, 然后用铅笔头在上面做笔记.

细节是错误的，因为故事发生得太晚了，我们的关系不可能是真的. 在他担任新主任的头几个星期里, 杰克带了一本笔记本, producing it to take notes whenever he learned something else about his new kingdom. I was so impressed that I have been carrying a notebook ever since, 在霍尔顿那集里也会有一个, but there is a psychological truth to the story just the same.

杰克写的论文相对较少. 他慢慢地、小心地擦亮它们, partly because it was his nature to do things slowly and carefully, and partly because he made such great demands on himself and others. He assumed that reviewers would also make great demands and would attack him harshly. 在许多方面，杰克是他自己最大的敌人. 但他的论文仍然有人读. 在六十年代早期, Jack would have described himself as a sedimentologist, 如我所愿, 因为当时我们学科的前沿是研究沉积岩石学和相关课题. 随着十年的发展, 我们都开始研究泥沙动力学, the emerging synthesis of sedimentology with boundary layer physics. Jack's mathematical skills were strong; while I poked determinedly ahead into this new region, 他可以自由地飞翔. 杰克对科学也有很好的直觉，可以看到前进的方向. 那时他在很多方面都是我的导师.

杰克很保守. He liked to describe himself as an "economic royalist", 富兰克林·罗斯福(Franklin Roosevelt)曾用这个词轻蔑地抨击反对他的商业利益集团. 杰克会说一些令人吃惊的话, 什么桑迪, 我的妻子(她很喜欢他), 称他的言论“笨拙”. 我还记得他向我和一位惊讶的部门秘书解释，为什么种族隔离是南非推行的一项公平和适当的政策. 如果这些“笨拙的评论”有一个连贯的线索,“这是对权威的尊重, 无论其政策是否恰当. 两个灵魂共享杰克, 一个威权主义者，一个自由主义者, and when the dean told Jack to do something particularly stupid, 我朋友的这两部分之间的冲突几乎使他怒不可遏.

杰克有审美的一面. 他喜欢歌剧，也喜欢听音乐会. 有一次他告诉我，他和妻子诺拉是如何在一场大雪中开车穿过匹兹堡几乎无人的街道，去看匹兹堡交响乐团的周日演出的. 他说，那里只有真正的死忠分子. 然而杰克对艺术的态度是明显的路德维克主义. Jack and I used to eat lunch in the faculty dining room at Webb Center (it was the Student Center then; Louis Webb, 又一个老弗吉尼亚人, was still President) We often ate with Wayne Bowman from the English Department. 有一天,, Jack explained to us that he was very interested in the novel, and wanted to get a list of the 100 best novels to read. Wayne and I scoffed; that wasn't the way to approach the novel 和re probably wasn't any such list, 我们说. 杰克在图书馆度过了一个下午, 第二天午餐时，他洋洋得意地拿着某人列出的100本最重要的小说. But the 19th century heyday of the novel failed to hold Jack's attention. It was the French post- modernist novels that engaged him, 主要是因为这些人是实验性的. Jack told me about one such novel that was unpaged and unbound; you could read the pages in any order. 杰克一般对诗歌没什么鉴赏力, although he was interested in the French Symbolist poets Verlaine and Malarme; these were the "slide rule" poets who hoped to synthesize poetry and mathematics. This was another side of Jack emerging; the radical frozen inside the 保守的. 杰克不赞成传统. 他对历史不感兴趣，还嘲笑宗教(“但你怎么能听布道呢, Don...").

我们幸存者用我们的记忆来纪念死者. At least once a week, I still have an argument with Jack Ludwick.

这篇文章是由Dr. Swift, 现任名誉教授, who at the time was Eminent Professor and Slover Chair of Oceanography. It began as a speech delivered at the Department's Ludwick Dinner in 1995. Then-Assistant Professor Fred Dobbs, editor of the newsletter, cajoled Dr. 赶快把它写下来.

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