Title:

Dean and Professor Emeritus

Affiliation:

Oregon State University

College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences

Corvallis,Oregon  USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

2003

Citation:

"For his pioneering work in determining the geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale; a discovery that led to the theory of plate tectonics."

Presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on March 14, 2005