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Treitel, Sven
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Treitel, Sven
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Enders A. Robinson and Sven Treitel are well-known for their contributions to the digital processing of seismic data. The scientists met as graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and their collaboration with on the Robinson-Treitel reader, and several books that followed, has laid the foundation of much that is done in seismic processing today. The Robinson-Treitel Reader was first published in 1969 by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and Seismic Service Corporation as a service to the industry. Drs Sven Treitel and Enders Robinson were the Society of Exploration Geophysicists 1969 Medal Award winners and their Reader became one of the mostly highly valued books in the profession, ranked third in the list of the top ten geophysics books by SEG as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations in 2005. .