Robinson, Enders Anthony of Venice, FL, passed away on Tuesday, December 6, 2022. He was born in Boston on March 18, 1930 to Doris Goodale Robinson and Edward Arthur Robinson, Sr. He grew up in South Weymouth, MA and entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947, going on to earn his Ph. D. in Geophysics in 1954. In the 1950s, he gained international prominence as his research led to the digital revolution in geophysics several decades later. The most honored scientist in his field, he is known as the “Father of Deconvolution.”

During his fifty year career, Enders divided his time between oil exploration and universities. He established the Geophysical Analysis Group at MIT and was founding member of Digicon. He was professor at a number of colleges, including University of Wisconsin, Uppsala University, MIT, University of Tulsa, and Harvard; in 2000, he retired as Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, where he held the Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Geophysics Chair.

Among his many interests, Enders enjoyed genealogy, Shakespeare, nature, water sports, and especially being with his family and friends. He took joy and pride in his grandchildren, spending memorable time at the beach and having ice cream outings with them. Also, he relished traveling for both work and pleasure, exploring the United States and many other countries, including Korea, Brazil, Indonesia, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and Europe.

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Publications

The Leading Edge

• Clark, Robert Dean; Robinson, Enders A. (1985). "Pythagoras and Jones". The Leading Edge 4 (4): 50–53. doi:10.1190/1.1439145.

• Robinson, Enders A. (1985). "Space‐ ime geometry". The Leading Edge 4 (6): 24–28. doi:10.1190/1.1439151.

• Clark, Robert Dean; Robinson, Enders A. (1985). "Descartes as geophysicist". The Leading Edge 4 (8): 32–35. doi:10.1190/1.1439169.

• Robinson, Enders (1985). "Addition of velocities". The Leading Edge 4 (11): 72–73. doi:10.1190/1.1439121.

• Robinson, Enders A.; Clark, Dean (1986). "Sparring over light". The Leading Edge 5 (4): 39–41. doi:10.1190/1.1439255.

• Robinson, Enders A. (1986). "MIGRATION AND THE MERCATOR PROJECTION". The Leading Edge 5 (7): 19–23. doi:10.1190/1.1439277. ISSN 1070-485X.

• Robinson, Enders A. (1997). "Transmitted deconvolution of reflected signals". The Leading Edge 16 (5): 503–508. doi:10.1190/1.1437673. ISSN 1070-485X.

• Robinson, Enders A. (1998). "Further to Norman Neidell’s series…. Holistic migration". The Leading Edge 17 (3): 313–320. doi:10.1190/1.1437960.

• Robinson, Enders A. (2000). "Wavelet estimation and Einstein deconvolution". The Leading Edge 19 (1): 56–60. doi:10.1190/1.1438456.

• Robinson, Enders A. (2006). "Geophysical exploration: Past and future". The Leading Edge 25 (1): 96–99. doi:10.1190/1.2164752.

• Robinson, Enders A. (2008). "Seismic resolution and interactive Earth-digital processing". The Leading Edge 27 (5): 670–673. doi:10.1190/1.2919586.

• Basic seismology series:

1. Robinson, Enders; Clark, Dean (1987). "The wave equation". The Leading Edge 6 (7): 14–17. doi:10.1190/1.1439405.

2. Robinson, Enders; Clark, Dean (1987). "A wave at a boundary: Reflection, transmission/refraction, and diffraction". The Leading Edge 6 (9): 38–42. doi:10.1190/1.1439428.

3. Robinson, Enders; Clark, Dean (1988). "Elasticity: Stress and strain". The Leading Edge 7 (2): 16–29. doi:10.1190/1.1439476.

4. Robinson, Enders; Clark, Dean (1988). "Elasticity: Hooke’s law". The Leading Edge 7 (8): 58–60. doi:10.1190/1.1439545.

5. Robinson, Enders; Clark, Dean (1989). "Elasticity: Cartesian fields of dilatation". The Leading Edge 8 (6): 28–31. doi:10.1190/1.1439631.

6. Robinson, Enders; Clark, Dean (1989). "Elasticity: Cartesian fields of rotation". The Leading Edge 8 (11): 18–21. doi:10.1190/1.1439583.

7. Robinson, Enders; Clark, Dean (1990). "Elasticity: Equations of motion". The Leading Edge 9 (7): 24–27. doi:10.1190/1.1439758.

8. Robinson, Enders; Clark, Dean (1991). "Sampling and the Nyquist frequency". The Leading Edge 10 (3): 51–53. doi:10.1190/1.1436812.

9. Robinson, Enders A.; Clark, Dean (2003). "The eikonal equation and the secret Pythagorean theorem". The Leading Edge 22 (8): 749–750. doi:10.1190/leedff.22.749_1.

10. Robinson, Enders A.; Clark, Dean (2005). "Basic seismology 10: The King's Chamber and seismic ray direction". The Leading Edge 24 (5): 485–487. doi:10.1190/1.1926803.

11. Robinson, Enders A.; Clark, Dean (2005). "Basic Seismology 11—Reflecting on the digital revolution". The Leading Edge 24 (10): 1030–1032. doi:10.1190/1.2112380.

12. Robinson, Enders A.; Clark, Dean (2006). "Basic Seismology 12—Heron of Alexandria and Fermat's principle of least time". The Leading Edge 25 (5): 556–558. doi:10.1190/1.2202656.

13. Robinson, Enders A.; Clark, Dean (2006). "Basic Seismology 13—Huygens' principle". The Leading Edge 25 (10): 1252–1255. doi:10.1190/1.2360614.

14. Robinson, Enders A.; Clark, Dean (2007). "Basic Seismology 14—Michael Faraday and the eikonal equation". The Leading Edge 26 (1): 24–26. doi:10.1190/1.2431823.

15. Robinson, Enders A.; Clark, Dean (2008). "Basic seismology 15: Isaac Newton and the birth of geophysics". The Leading Edge 27 (2): 159–161. doi:10.1190/1.2840361.

SEG Best Paper in Geophysics Award

• Dan Loewenthal and Enders A. Robinson received the 2000 SEG Best Paper in Geophysics Award for their paper On unified dual fields and Einstein deconvolution^[2]

• E. A. Robinson and Sven Treitel received the 1964 SEG Best Paper in Geophysics Award for their paper Principles of digital filtering.^[3]

References

1. 跳转↑ Robinson, Enders. A (1954), Predictive decomposition of time series with applications to seismic exploration (Thesis), http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59629

2. 跳转↑ Loewenthal, Dan; Robinson, Enders A. (2000). "On unified dual fields and Einstein deconvolution". GEOPHYSICS 65 (1): 293–303. doi:10.1190/1.1444720. ISSN 0016-8033.

3. 跳转↑ Robinson, E. A.; Treitel, S. (1964). "PRINCIPLES OF DIGITAL FILTERING". GEOPHYSICS 29 (3): 395–404. doi:10.1190/1.1439370. ISSN 0016-8033.

External Links

• Enders Robinson, an oral history conducted in 1997 by Andrew Goldstein, IEEE History Center, Hoboken, NJ, USA.

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• https://wiki.seg.org/wiki/Enders_Robinson