Bruce c heezen biography of michael

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Historical Note.

PDF | On Jan 1, , Michael Perfit and others published Perfit, M.R. and Heezen B.C. ().

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He was research associate (– ) and senior research scientist (–) at the university's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and then assistant.

The Des Moines Register described Bruce Heezen as a large man.

Vinton, Iowa, 11 April 1924; d. at sea, south of Iceland, 21 June 1977)

oceanography.

Heezen was the son of Charles Christian Heezen and Esther Shirding. When he was still young, the family moved to Muscatine, iowa.

As the only child of affluent parents, he was able to pursue his many interests in the outer world about him and the inner world of the laboratory and the library.

Sperry Gyroscope Company · "Rates of Sedimentation," Heezen, , McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology · Navidad,

Heezen was also called upon, in his younger years, to help his father and, in his father’s absence, to manage the family turkey farm.

Heezen enrolled at the University of Iowa in 1942, and as a geology major he worked closely with his professor, A.K.

Miller, and Professor Arthur Trowbridge. After he spent a summer in Nevada as an assistant to Walter Youngquist, who was collecting cephalopods for his Ph. D. dissertation, Heezen’s future career as a paleontologist seemed assured.

However, in April 1947, after hearing a Sigma Xi lecture by Maurice Ewing of the Woods Hole Oceanograp