Robert Sinclair Dietz
American scientist (1914-1995) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 80
Robert Sinclair Dietz was an American scientist with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Dietz, born in Westfield, New Jersey, was a marine geologist, geophysicist and oceanographer who conducted pioneering research along with Harry Hammond Hess concerning seafloor spreading, published as early as 1960-1961.
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While at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography he observed the nature of the Emperor chain of seamounts that extended from the northwest end of the Hawaiian Island-Midway chain and speculated over lunch with Robert Fisher in 1953 that something must be carrying these old volcanic mountains northward like a conveyor belt.
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William Kenneth HartmannBoth received Barringer Medal
Maurice EwingBoth received Walter H. Bucher MedalPaul F. HoffmanBoth received Walter H. Bucher MedalNicholas ShackletonBoth received Francis P. Shepard MedalEdward C. T. ChaoBoth received Barringer Medal