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Also Known As William Maurice Ewing
Born May 12, 1906 • Texas
Died May 4, 1974 (aged 67) • Galveston • Texas
Subjects Of Study marine sediment • ocean basin • seismic refraction method
Marcia McNutt
American geophysicist
Walter Munk
American geophysicist and oceanographer
Robert S. Dietz
American geophysicist
Merle Antony Tuve
American geophysicist
Dirk Brouwer
American astronomer
Day, Arthur L.
Arthur L. Day
American geophysicist
Marion King Hubbert
American geophysicist
Conrad Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Milutin Milankovitch
Serbian mathematician and geophysicist
Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred Wegener
German meteorologist and geophysicist
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Croatian geophysicist
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
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Fredrik Størmer
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Stanley Keith Runcorn
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Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
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Murray, Sir John
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Sydney Chapman
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