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Longtime Mill Valley resident David Harker was born in San Francisco on October 19th, 1906. His earliest memories are of living in Mill Valley as a young child and attending a German kindergarten on Summit Avenue. David graduated with honors from UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry in 1928, and later earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology. In 1975, David met and married Deborah Harker. He would go on to become an internationally honored scientist and educator who made his mark largely in the specialty of crystallology, although he was also in demand as a lecturer and teacher in the related fields of physics and chemistry. In his oral history, David recounts commuting from Mill Valley to Berkeley, stories from the Mill Valley Fire of 1929, relocating throughout the country for school and work, events from World War I, and his thoughts and philosophy on the important role of science in the pursuit of truth.
Identifier
3E57327A-95B2-4132-A9D2-231834814370 1978.009.001
Subject
1929 Fire Chemistry De Savich, Katherine Dowd's stable Emigration & immigration Fires Harker, Deborah Harker, George Asa Harker, Katherine History Mill Valley Fire MV history - WWI and WWII Oral history - Natural disasters Pauling, Linus Rowan, Andrew Summers, Col Science Scientists Totheroh, Dan World War I
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