Ivan Tolstoy; Properties of superresonant systems of spherical scatterers, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 12, pp. 327 - 332, April 1987.
Ivan Tolstoy received the Licence ès Sciences degree from the Sorbonne, Paris, France, in 1945 and the Ph.D degree in geophysics from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 1950.He was on the Lamont Geological Observatory staff from 1948 to 1951. From 1951 to 1953 he did research on elastic waves with the Stanolind Oil Co., Tulsa, OK. Between 1953 and 1968 he did research in ocean acoustics and in very low frequency atmosphere waves at Hudson Laboratories, Columbia University, where he was Associate Director (1965-1968). In 1967-1968 he was Professor of Ocean Engineering at Columbia University, then Professor of Geophysics at Florida State University, Tallahassee, between 1968 and 1974. He was also Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics at Leeds University, Leeds, England (1973-1976), and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (1977-1978). His most recent work has dealt with the theory of various forms of sound scatter. He has published a number of books, among which are Ocean Acoustics (1966, with Clay), Wave Propagation (1973, McGraw-Hill), and James Clerk Maxwell, a Biography (1981, Univ. of Chicago Press).
Dr. Tolstoy is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.