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Harry Hess
Harry Hess was a very smart and talented man for his time. He was even considered one
of the founding fathers of plate tectonics. Harry was born in New York City in May of 1906. He
went to college at Yale University. He flunked his first course and was told he had not future in
the field. But he didn’t give up. Later on he began teaching geology at Princeton University.
Then World War 1 was declared. He enlisted for the Naval Reserve and was only a junior in
Collage. Yeah, he was a teacher and a student at the same time. Then a few years later he rose
to the title of Rear Admiral. He then served as the commander of the attack transport U.S. Cape
Johnson. While in the Pacific Ocean he studied topography; that led to the discovery of
submerged and flat topped mountains. He later caller these mountains guyots. This discovery
led to the research of guyots and helped the research of echo-sounding surveys. A few years
later researchers discovered underwater mountain ranges in the Atlantic Ocean. Then he
hypothesized that the ocean floor is not as old as the land masses. He figured out that the
ocean floor is constantly getting coved by magma. Then the old floor is turned into the new
magma. This was ground breaking information. This also supported Wagener’s theory of
continental drift. He also agreed on the idea that tectonic plates slowly moved the continents
over time. He later found out that when two continents collide a mountain range is formed.
Where the two continents met. He then published a report called History of Ocean Basins and
was, for a long time, the only book used in teaching solid earth geophysics. Then he went back
to work at Princeton University and became the geology department and was an important part
of the scientific community. Later he helped design the nation space program. He was one of
ten members that helped analyze rock samples from the Apollo 11 mission. Then he died in
August of 1969. The Nation Academy of science memoir calls Hess “one of the truly remarkable
earth scientists of this century.”
By Brock Brown