Peter R. Gould (1932-2000)
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Peter R. Gould was born in Coulesdon, England and was evacuated to
the United States during World War II and placed under the care of
Everett N. and Josephine
Y. Case of Hamilton, N.Y. He returned to England in 1945 to attend
the Nautical College at Pangbourne. Upon graduation in 1951, he
was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Gordon Highlanders in the
British Army and
completed eighteen months of active service in Malaysia.
He was a 1956 geography graduate of Colgate University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and received a master's degree in 1957 and a doctorate in 1960, both from Northwestern University. He received a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1959 and completed field work in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya as an assistant professor with Syracuse University. In 1963, he joined the faculty of the Department of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, at Penn State, working there for thirty-five years, and retiring in May 1998.
A world-renowned geographer and respected teacher, he authored many books including "The Geographer at Work" (1985), "Fire in the Rain: The Democratic Consequences of Chernobyl" (1990), "The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic" (1993) and "Becoming a Geographer" (1999). He received an honorary doctorate from the Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (1981); the Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Research Achievement, Penn State University (1981); the Evan Pugh Professorship, Penn State University (1986); the Prix International de Géographie, St. Dié, France (1993); and the Retzius Gold Medal of the Svenska S ällskapet for Anthropologi och Geografi, Stockholm, Sweden (1997).
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"Becoming a Geographer" (Syracuse
University Press, 1999) by Peter R. Gould
Much of his research was done in collaboration with colleagues based at
universities and governmental agencies in North and South America, Europe,
and Africa. In the United States he was a research consultant for the National
Aeronautic and Space Administration, Agency for International Development,
Environmental Protection Agency, and Centers for Disease Control. He also
was a lecturer, consulting editor, and student adviser.
To support the Peter R. Gould Memorial Fund, please contact the Department of Geography at (814) 865-3433 or via e-mail at editor@geog.psu.edu.
