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- Birth nameWilliam Maurice Ewing
- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Maurice Ewing was born on May 12, 1906 in Lockney, Texas, USA. Maurice is known for Our Mr. Sun (1956) and Gateways to the Mind (1958). Maurice was married to Margaret Sloan Kidder and Avarilla Grace Hildenbrand. Maurice died on May 4, 1974.
- SpousesMargaret Sloan Kidder(February 19, 1944 - ?) (4 children)Avarilla Grace Hildenbrand(October 31, 1928 - 1941) (divorced, 1 child)
- Geophysicist and university professor who, as research associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1940-1945), perfected under-water communication techniques and pioneered the exploration of the ocean floors by seismic waves. Director of Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory (1949-1974), he discovered evidence supporting the theory of continental drift. Inventor and designer of the SOFAR ("Sound Fixing and Ranging") system, a sonic method for rescuing men lost at sea, and also of a camera that could take underwater pictures at a depth of more than three miles.
- Photography furnishes a more satisfactory means for studying deep-sea life than efforts to obtain samples by drags and raising the animal forms to the surface, because usually when the animals are taken from the tremendous pressures at the mile-deep levels to the shallower levels, they explode. [New York Herald Tribune, October 29, 1944]
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