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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

William Maurice Ewing

Title:

Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, The Marine Institute

Affiliation:

University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston,Texas  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1974

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1973

Citation:

"For extending and improving the methods of geology and geophysics to study the ocean floor and to understand the last remaining unexplored province of the solid earth--that which lies under the sea."

Presented by President Nixon at a White House Ceremony on October 10, 1973.

 

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