Tobler, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1930-2018

found: Map projection transformation, 2000:t.p. (Waldo R. Tobler) p. 4 of cover (emeritus professor, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)

found: LC in OCLC (70-27480), 3/24/00(hdg.: Tobler, Waldo Rudolph; usage: Waldo R. Tobler)

found: OCLC database, 3/24/00(hdgs.: Tobler, Waldo Rudolph; Tobler, Waldo R.; Tobler, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph); Tobler, Waldo Rudolph, 1930- ; usages: W.R. Tobler, Waldo R. Tobler, Waldo Tobler, Waldo Rudolph Tobler [author's thesis])

found: Wikipedia, viewed September 3, 2024(Waldo Rudolph Tobler; born November 16, 1930 in Portland, Oregon; died February 20, 2018 in Santa Barbara, California; Swiss citizenship and U.S. citizenship; geographer and cartographer; his research impacted the development of quantitative geography; established the discipline of analytical cartography; he authored literature on map projections, choropleth maps, flow maps, cartograms, animated mapping, etc.; his research was coined Tobler's first law of geography, Tobler's second law of geography, and Tobler's hiking function; B.A., M.A. and Ph.D in geography, University of Washington in Seattle; 1961-1977, Assistant professor, University of Michigan; 1977-1994, Professor of Geography and Professor of Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara; active Professor Emeritus, UCSB, 1994-2018)