# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/drummond-matthews
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:45:20.289Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/drummond-matthews"
name: "Drummond Matthews"
slug: "drummond-matthews"
description: "Drummond Hoyle Matthews FRS, known as \"Drum\", was a British marine geologist and geophysicist and a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics. His work, along with that of fellow Briton Fred Vine and Canadian Lawrence Morley, showed how variations in the magnetic properties of rocks forming the ocean floor could be consistent with, and ultimately help confirm, Harry Hammond Hess's 1962 theory of seafloor spreading. In 1989 he was awarded the Geological Society of London's highest honour, the Wollaston Medal."
tagline: "British geophysicist (1931–1997)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
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birthDate: "1931-02-05"
deathDate: "1997-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump