FROM E' CENTERS TO THE CHARACTERISTIC RESONANCE - A COLLEAGUES REMINISCENCES ON THE SCIENTIFIC ODYSSEY OF WEEKS,ROBERT,A

The scientific career of Professor R.A. Weeks has been an odyssey of s ome 40 years, carrying him from the Scylla of silica (where he discove red the 'E' center') to the Charybdis of lunar science (where he confr onted the riddle of the 'characteristic' resonance) and back once agai n to silica. This paper touches upon but a few episodes in his fantast ic voyage, these selected from the perspective of a colleague and occa sional shipmate.