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Robert Sinclair Dietz

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American scientist (1914-1995)

United StatesScientistsLived 1914 to 1995 · aged 80
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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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1988Penrose Medal
1985Barringer Medal
1979Francis P. Shepard Medal
1971Walter H. Bucher Medal

Connected to Robert 6

Eugene Merle ShoemakerAlso won Barringer MedalBruce Charles HeezenAlso won Francis P. Shepard MedalMaurice EwingAlso won Walter H. Bucher MedalFelix Andries Vening MeineszAlso won Penrose MedalPaul F. HoffmanAlso won Walter H. Bucher MedalNicholas ShackletonAlso won Francis P. Shepard Medal

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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. 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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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1914 to 1995 · aged 80
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