Paul Siple

Paul Allman Siple ( December 18, 1908 in Montpelier, Ohio; † November 25, 1968 in Arlington County, Virginia) was an American Antarctic explorer and geographer.

Siple was born in 1908 as the son of German -born Clyde L. Seiple and Fannie H. Allman in Montpelier, Ohio. He attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Siple adopted six Antarctic expeditions, including the two expeditions of Richard Evelyn Byrd, who was his patron and close friend, which it, inter alia, led to the Siple Coast (1928-1930) and Siple Island ( 1933-1935 ). On his first expedition, the Byrd Antarctic expedition, Siple was only 19 years old and have been as an official representative of the Boy Scouts of America, the Boy Scouts of America, selected with great sympathy of the American public with thousands of applicants for it.

Paul Siple and Charles F. Passel developed during the second world war on behalf of the U.S. government a " wind chill " called measure of the wind-induced cooling of a man. To this end, they led in the winter of 1941, while the third led by Byrd Antarctic Expedition ( 1939-1941 ), a similar experiment on a model by and transferred the realized results to humans.

From 1939 to 1941 Siple was in command of the West Base of Little America of the United States Antarctic Service ( USAS ). Here he took part in all the major exploration flights as navigator. During one of these flights a volcano was discovered, which was later named after him. He was from 1946 to 1947 on behalf of the U.S. Army participants in the Antarctic Operation High Jump, a company in the U.S. Navy. From 1956 to 1957 he was the first scientific director of the Amundsen -Scott South Pole Station. As "Director of Scientific Projects", he was also involved in the planning of the International Geophysical Year, which took place from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958. From 1963 to 1966 he served as the first U.S. science attaché for Australia and New Zealand.

In the issue of December 31, 1956 TIME magazine Siple devoted a cover story and his picture was on the front page.

In addition to the Siple Coast, the Siple Island and was built in 1969 Siple Station in Ellsworthland also the Antarctic volcano Mount Siple bears his name.

Siple wrote four books:

• A Boy Scout with Byrd, published in the winter of 1931
• Scout to Explorer in 1936
• 90 Degrees South, 1959