Harry Hess was a smart person. He was born in New York City. He was very successful in the military. The highest rank he achieved was Rear Admiral. After the military, he went back to work at universities. He discovered flat topped underwater mountains which he named guyots. Hess also came up with the theory of seafloor spreading and helped to explain continental drift and plate tectonics. Harry used sonar technology to map out a large section of the seafloor during WWII. Hess’s findings revolutionized Earth science. Harry Hammond Hess was born on May 27, 1906. He was born to Julian S. Hess, a member of the New York stock exchange and Elizabeth Engel Hess. Harry Hess graduated from Yale University. Upon graduating, Hess taught for one year at Rutgers University and spent a year as a research associate in the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He was a professor at Princeton University. He became the head of the Geology department in 1950. Harry died of a heart attack on August 26, 1969 in Massachusetts. …show more content…
He had to stop studying this because he was called into active service during World War II since he was in the Navy. During his time in the Navy, the boat had equipment for sounding the ocean floor. Hess took advantage of this and mapped a large portion of the ocean floor. After the war ended, Hess continued to study guyots and mid ocean ridges which run down the center of the ocean like an underwater backbone. Harry Hess made a major contribution to the continental drift theory by discovering seafloor spreading. Seafloor spreading showed that the continents moved by the constantly spreading seafloor. His theory was proved when magnetized strips of rock were discovered on the seafloor showing that the floor was spreading
1950- Oceanographic vessels provided data on features of the ocean basin with lead to the discovery of mid-ocean ridges.
Thomas Heyward. Jr. was born July 28, 1746, on his father's’ plantation in St. Lukes Parish, South Carolina. He is named Thomas Heyward. Jr. because his father named his older sibling as well, so gave him the Jr. at the end of his name to make a distinction between the two. He grew up pretty wealthy, with his father being one of the wealthiest rice planters at the time. Heyward’s dad wanted what was best for his three children’s education so Heyward got an education at home, then went to England to study law at Cambridge University. Heyward’s father was also a strong royalist, and was devoted to the King.
NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper graduated from the University of Hawai'i. After graduating from the University of Hawai'i, Cooper got a space commission. Gordon Cooper did many groundbreaking things in the astronaut community. Cooper was a part of the seven original astronauts who participated in Project Mercury. He was also the first man to sleep in space. It interests me that he came out of a college, in Hawai'i, and he was a part of remarkable events made in history. It's not every day that you see someone from a school, in such a small state, making a difference in the world.
William Hooper was born on June 28, 1742, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, William Hooper, and his mother, Mary Dennie, were both well- respected people in society. They had five children, Hooper being the oldest of them. William Hooper Sr. wanted his son to follow his profession as a minister and enrolled him into Boston Latin School when he was young. Later on in 1757, he went to Harvard University and graduated three years later in 1760 with honors. At that time he was around nineteen and decided to pursue law instead of what his father wanted.
Harry T. Williams was born on May 19, 1909. When in college, he was encouraged by a professor to study history. This professor's main interest was the Civil War era and had a great effect on Williams. He attended Platteville State Teachers College (later Wisconsin State University at Platteville) where he received a B.Ed in 1931. Williams continued education into graduate school was mainly due to the lack of work during the Great Depression. He went on to earn a Ph.M. in 1932, and Ph.D. in 1937, from the University of Wisconsin (Dawson 431).
In the back of a math class during junior year of high school was when one University of Central Florida student fully realized his artistic talent.
November 13, 1941 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.
Gordon Cooper, a NASA astronaut flew in space twice during his lifetime. During his last trip into space he set a world endurance record of 190 hours and 56 minutes. Before coming to NASA Gordon Cooper got an army commission after his days at the University of Hawaii. He went into the Air Force and was on duty in 1949 with the 86th Fighter Bomber Group who were deployed in Munich, Germany for 4 years. After advanced training he graduated in 1957, he was going up in the Air Force but then got invited to the NASA astronaut program. On a Gemini 5 mission in 1965 he and Charles Conrad went 3,312,993 miles in 190 hours and 56 minutes on one mission creating the space endurance record. Now the space endurance record has been increased, but back then
Political advocacy organizations have historically played a big part in securing political rights for minority groups in Western Liberal Democracies. Whether we look to the now infamous Boston Tea Party to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, we observe the importance of political organizations in their quest to ensure equitable rights for the people whom they represent. In context of the early twentieth century, the most prominent group to represent African-American’s in the United States was that of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP, as it is more commonly called, was founded on February 12, 1909 by a mixed group of individuals including but not limited to Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. DuBois and Archibald Grimké with the goal of creating a civil rights organization that would help assist in organizing for civil rights for blacks. One of its most prominent members, Charles Hamilton Houston, who became a part of the organization around the mid-twentieth century, changed the trajectory of the organization for years to come. Hence this essay
7. What is the relationship between plate tectonics and the ocean floor—seafloor spreading, for example?
One evidence of this theory is molten material. Molten Material is magma erupting from mid-ocean ridges. Alvin the submarine found weird rocks shaped like pillows or toothpaste. This tells us this magma cools quickly underwater. Another type of evidence are magnetic stripes. Magnetic stripes are patterns in the ocean floor to prove Earth’s magnetic field has reversed itself in history. Scientist also looked at the “magnetic memory” of the rocks. Scientist drilled pipes through water to drill holes into the ocean floor. Scientists discovered that the older rocks were further away and younger rocks were closer. Those were the three types of evidence that scientist used to support the theory of Sea Floor Spreading.
Alfred Wegener was a meteorologist and astronomer. He was the first scientist to introduce the theory of the continental drift. Wegener theorized that at one time the continents were one large landmass or Pangaea that had drifted apart. His ideas were initially rejected by other scientists. It was not until long after Wegener’s death that proof was obtained and his theory verified.
Rudolph Hess was born in Alexandria Austria, Egypt 4-26-1894 and moved to Austria when he turned 14 years old. Hess in the 7th bavarian Field Artillery Regiment as an infantryman at the outbreak of WWI where he was wounded twice. He had earned the Iron Cross 2nd class and promoted to Corporal in 1915 and after more training he had been promoted to Vizefeldwebel to receive the Bavarian Military Merit Cross. Hess served in the Battle of Verdun in May, and was hit by shrapnel in the left hand and arm on 12 June 1916. He had taken a whole month to recover and was sent back to Verdun and afterwards requested that he be allowed to enroll to train as a pilot, so after some Christmas leave with his family he reported to Munich. He received basic flight training at Oberschleissheim and Lechfeld Air Base and advanced training at Valenciennes in France, he was assigned to Jagdstaffel 35b, a Bavarian fighter squadron equipped with Fokker D.VII biplanes. He saw no action with Jagdstaffel 35b, because the war ended on 11 November 1918, before he had the opportunity.
However, Wegener believed that only the continents were moving and they plowed through the rocks of the ocean basins. (Colliers Encyclopedia, 1996) Harold Jeffreys then argued that it is impossible for continents to break through solid rock without breaking apart. (USGS, 2012) Wegener also claimed that the centrifugal force of the spinning planet had forced the continents sideways, parallel to the equator; tidal pull from the sun and moon had caused lateral movement. (Sant, Joseph, 2012) His orders of magnitude were too weak. Thus, his theory was dismissed. (Lois Van Wagner, 2013)
Prior to the Age of Discovery, Europeans have enhanced their technology and increased their geographical knowledge. In the past, European navigated through the seas by observing their environment or by using portolan charts to guide them through them the Mediterranean sea. However, because of Prince Henry the Navigator, Europeans were able to travel farther with much more accuracy. Henry designed a nautical map which helped explorers travel away from shore without the possibility of being lost. This gave them the opportunity to discover more land, past their usual limits seen in the portolan charts. Not only was he able to create an efficient map, he also taught others the knowledge