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...renowned for his studies confirming plate tec tonic theories of sea floor spreading and continental drift. His work showed that the earth's magnetic field had reversed. He received the highest honor for achievement in the earth sciences, the Vetlesen Prize...
Died. William Maurice Ewing, 67, U.S. geophysicist, oceanographer and first winner of the Vetlesen Prize, top award in the earth sciences; of a stroke; in Galveston, Texas. For four decades Ewing was a passionate, omnivorous student of the earth's structure. He pioneered the use of shock waves to explore the ocean floor and during World War II devised a system of naval communication based on the long-range transmission of explosion waves under water. Director of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory (now Lamont-Doherty) from 1949 to 1972, he logged thousands of miles aboard its research...
Midst laurels stood: Dutch Astronomer Jan Henrik Oort, 66, a pioneer in radio astronomy, honored with Columbia University's $25,000 Vetlesen Prize; Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W." Gardner, 54, Photographer Edward Steichen, 87, and Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, all named for Family of Man awards for their contributions to humanity; Israel's patriarchal Man of Letters Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, and German-born Jewish Poetess Nelly Sachs, 74, a fragile lyricist who fled Hitler's Germany in 1940 to live in Sweden...
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