Marion King Hubbert
Marion King Hubbert (October 5th 1903 - October 11th 1989) is a Geophysicist étasunien, which worked in particular in the research laboratories of Shell to Houston. It contributed many shares in the fields of the Géologie and the Géophysique, in particular famous the curve of Hubbert, with important political ramifications. It was often named “Mr. King Hubbert” or “King Hubbert. ” He was member of the technocratic Mouvement founded by Howard Scott in the Années 1920.
Biography
Hubbert was born with San Sheba, with the Texas in 1903. He attends the Université of Chicago, where he receives his Bachelor off Science in 1926, his Master off Science in 1928 and finally his Ph.D in 1937, studying the Géologie, the Mathématiques and the Physique.
He works as an assistant geologist for the Amerada Petroleum Company during two years, while continuing his Ph.D. He joined the oil company Shell in 1943 - he will leave it in 1964. He becomes thereafter expert in geophysical research for the United States Geological Survey, until the retirement age, in 1976. He also occupies of the posts of professor of geology and geophysics to the Université of Stanford of 1963 to 1968, then with the Université of Berkeley of 1973 to 1976.
He died out on October 11th, 1989 at the 86 years age.
Seek
Hubbert is mainly known for its studies on the capacities of the primary reserves of resources such as the Pétrole and the Natural gas. He predicts that the production of oil of a reserve, beginning of its exploitation with its exhaustion, would resemble a curve in the shape of bell (near to the normal curve ) reaching its maximum when half of the reserve was extracted, then falling down.
In 1956, at the time of a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute with San Antonio, with the Texas, Hubbert made the prediction that the aggregate output of oil to the E. - U. would reach its maximum in the neighborhoods of 1970, before starting to decrease. It became famous when one realized that it was right, in 1970. The curve which it employed in its analysis is known under the name of Courbe of Hubbert, and the moment when it reaches its maximum the Pic of Hubbert.
Quotation
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Our ignorance is not so vast ace our failure to uses what we know.
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External bonds
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hubbertpeak.com: Mr. King Hubbert, quotation
- Biography of King Hubbert
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