Abstract
Lucien LaCoste, an inventor and gravity meter builder whose work is of major importance to both the research community and the exploration industry, died recently after a long, rich career. Can you imagine this happening today… brilliant young faculty member abandons a secure academic career to form a company with his senior professor, then dominates a major competitive field of geophysics for 50 years through sheer creative genius, while maintaining complete independence and the highest standards of integrity? It is the stuff that dreams are made of.LaCoste was attracted to the University of Texas at Austin by the quality of the tennis program there, which was arguably the best in the country in the late 1920s. He lettered in tennis three times, developed an interest in physics, and obtained his doctorate in 1933. He then went to the California Institute of Technology to study quantum mechanics, a move calculated to bring him back to Texas as a member of the faculty, as quantum mechanics was a new field with few qualified instructors.
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