Title:

Professor of Geology & Geophysics

Affiliation:

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles,California  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1974

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1965

Citation:

"For showing by profoundly original observations and clear physical reasoning how sand grains and mountains move and from whence the oceans come."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 10, 1966.