Considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics, Rear Admiral Harry Hammond Hess was born on May 24, 1906 in New York City. He is best known for his theories on sea floor spreading, specifically work on relationships between island arcs, seafloor gravity anomalies, and serpentinized peridotite, suggesting that the convection of the Earth's mantle was the driving force behind this process. This work provided a conceptual base for the development of the theory of plate tectonics.
Harry Hess Nye died in 1954.
Harry Hess Nye was born in 1887.
Harry Hess Reichard died in 1956.
Harry Hess Reichard was born in 1878.
Rear Admiral Dr. Harry Hammond Hess was married to Annette (Burns), and was the father of Dr. George Burns Hess and Frank Deming Mather Hess.
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Harry Hess was born on May 24th, 1906. Alfred Wegener died sometime in November of 1930. That would mean that Harry Hess was about 24 years old when Wegener died.
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Harry Hammond Hess is not known for any invention. He was, however, one of the primary developers in the modern theory of plate tectonics.
Harry Hess proposed an explanation that tied together data on the age of ocean rocks, sediment thickness, and magnetic striping.