William Maurice Ewing Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) 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 (including the SOFAR channel), 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.
Photography furnishes a more satisfactory means for studying deep-sea life than efforts to obtain samples by drags and raising the animal forms to the surface, because usually when the animals are taken from the tremendous pressures at the mile-deep levels to the shallower levels, they explode. [New York Herald Tribune, October 29, 1944]
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Geophysicist and university professor who, as research associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1940-1945), perfected under-water communication techniques and pioneered the exploration of the ocean floors by seismic waves. Director of Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory (1949-1974), he discovered evidence supporting the theory of continental drift. Inventor and designer of the SOFAR ("Sound Fixing and Ranging") system, a sonic method for rescuing men lost at sea, and also of a camera that could take underwater pictures at a depth of more than three miles.
Miscellaneous
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Year
Status
Character
Gateways to the Mind
1958
TV Movie documentary board of scientific advisors: geophysics - as Dr. Maurice Ewing
Our Mr. Sun
1956
TV Movie scientific advisory board: marine geologyy - as Dr. Maurice Ewing
Thanks
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Year
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About Time
1962
TV Movie special thanks: board of scientific advisors: geophysics - as Dr. Maurice Ewing
$700,000
