Maurice Ewing
Academic
1906 – 1974
Who was Maurice Ewing?
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.
Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission, deep sea coring of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the Earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity surveys, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
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- Born
- May 12, 1906
Lockney - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Rice University
Physics
( - 1931)
- PhD, Rice University
- Lived in
- Galveston
- Texas
(1972 - 1974/05/04)
- Died
- May 4, 1974
Galveston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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