11 Facts About Maurice Ewing

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William Maurice "Doc" Ewing was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.

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Maurice Ewing was born in Lockney, Texas, where he was the eldest surviving child of a large farm family.

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Maurice Ewing won a scholarship to attend Rice University, earning a BA with honors in 1926.

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Maurice Ewing completed his graduate studies at the same institution, earning an MA in 1927 and being awarded his PhD in 1931.

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Maurice Ewing worked as an instructor at the Rice Institute while pursuing his PhD before joining the faculty at Lehigh University in 1930, where he served until 1944.

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Maurice Ewing moved to Columbia University, becoming a professor of geology in 1947.

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Maurice Ewing divorced a second time, and married his third wife Harriet Greene Bassett in 1965.

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Maurice Ewing served as president of the American Geophysical Union and the Seismological Society of America.

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Maurice Ewing made many contributions to oceanography, including the discovery of the SOFAR Channel, the invention of the sofar bomb, and did much fundamental work on plate tectonics.

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Maurice Ewing originated Project Mogul, an early program to detect Soviet nuclear weapons tests.

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Maurice Ewing suffered a fatal stroke in 1974 in Galveston, Texas.