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John Milne
Born: December 30, 1850, Liverpool
Died: July 31,1913, Shide, Isle of Wight
Education: King's Colledge School
Contributions: A British geologist and mining engineer who invented the first horozontal seismograph. -
Alexander Du Toit
Born: March 14, 1878, in Rodenbosch, South Africa
Died: February 25, 1948, in Cape Town, South Africa
Education: attended the University of Cape Town
He was a geologist from South Africa. One of Alfred Wegner's early supporters of continental drift in the late 1900's. -
Alfred Wegener
Born: November 1, 1880, Berlin, Germany
Died: November 2, 1930, Clarinetania, Greenland
Education: Kollnische Gymnasium in Berlin
Contributions: a German geophysicist and meteorologist, he was known for his acheivements in meteorology and as a polar researcher. He is now known for his continental drift theory which he backed with his discovery of palaeomagnetism. -
Arthur Holmes
Born January 14, 1890, Gateshead, England
Died september 20, 1965, London, England
Education: Imperial colledge of London and the Royal Colledge of Science
Contributions: was the first scientist to grasp the implications of mantle convectionand he pioneered the use of radioactive dating of minerals -
Hugo Benioff
Born: September 14, 1899
Died: 1968
Education: Pomona Colledge ad California Institute of Technology
Contributions: Hugo Benioff was an American seismologist and he charted the location of deep earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean. He also built the first vertical siesmometer. -
Kiyoo Wadati
Born: September 8, 1902
Education: University of Tokyo
Contributions: Kiyoo Wadati was a seismologist who researched on earthquakes. e discovered what is currently called the Wadati-benioff Zone, an area of deep and intermediate earthquakes along oceanic trenches. This became the base for the Plate Tectonics theory. -
Harry Hess
Born: May 24, 1906, New York City, USA
Died: August 25, 1969
Education: Yale and Princeton University
Contributions: a geologist and naval officer in WWII, Harry Hess was one of the founders of the theory of Plate Tectonics by discovering Sea-floor Spreading. -
Sir Edward (Teddy) Bullard
Born: September 21, 1907
Died: April 3, 1907
Education: University of Umbridge
Contributions: was a geologist who pioneered the use of siesmology to study the ocean floor and measured geothermal heat flow through oceanic crust. -
Robert Dietz
Born: September 14, 1914
Died: May 19, 1995
Contributions: As an American oceanographer, goephysicist, and a marine geologist, Robert Dietz worked alonside Harry Hess to discover Sea-floor Spreading. He made the point of saying that something like a coveyer belt must be carrying volcanic mountians (like the ones on Midway Island, Hawaii) northward. -
Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews
Born: M: 1931 V:1939
Died: M: 1997 V:still alive
Contributions: discovered there was a pattern of magnetic strips across the ocean floor. Proving to be the first test of Sea-floor Spreading. -
Glomar Challenger
Contributions: In 1968 the Glomar challenger emberked on an expedition to called the Deep Sea Drilling Program, crossing back and forth over the mid atlantic ridge. It also drilled core samples a fixed locations on its 15 year-long journey. -
The Atlantis ship
Built: 1997
Length: 274 feet
Speed; 11 knots cruising
Contributions: Used as a reasearch vessel by NOAA and WHOI -
Fun facts page
Kiyoo Wadati is atill alive and he is 110 years old!
Hugo Benioff played the violin, the piano, and the cello.
The RV Atlantis took 267,540 gallons to run!
After death, Arthur Holmes was cremated, his ashes given to his wife.
The RV Atlantis traveled 1,300,000 miles and still works today!
Teddy Bullard won four awards in his life time: Hughes Medal,
Knight of the British Empire, Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal, and the Royal Medal
