Background
Ewing, William Maurice was born on May 12, 1906 in Lockney, Texas, United States. Son of Floyd Ford and Hope (Hamilton) Ewing.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AV8S3MS/?tag=2022091-20
Ewing, William Maurice was born on May 12, 1906 in Lockney, Texas, United States. Son of Floyd Ford and Hope (Hamilton) Ewing.
Bachelor, Rice Institute (now Rice University), 1926. Master of Arts, Rice Institute (now Rice University), 1927. Doctor of Philosophy, Rice Institute (now Rice University), 1931.
Teacher physics University Pittsburgh, 1929-1930. Teacher physics, geology, and geophysics Lehigh University, 1930-1944. Teacher geology Columbia University, 1944-1972, professor geology, 1947-1946, Higgins professor geology, 1959, director Lamont Geological Observatory, 1949-1972.
Research associate national defense projects Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Oceanographic Institute, 1940-1946. Discovered SOFAR Channel, Sigsbee knolls, 1954. Chief scientist oceanographic research ship Glomar Challenger.
Head division earth and planetary science Marine biomedical Institute of University Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 1972. Professor geological science University Texas Medical Branch.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
Member National Academy of Sciences (elected), Royal Society London (foreign), American Geophysical Union (president), Seismological Society of America (president), Philosophical Society Texas.
Married Avarilla Hildenbrand, October 31, 1928. 1 child; married Margaret Sloan Kidder, February 19, 1944. 4 children; married Harriet Greene Bassett, May 6, 1965.