GEOLOGIST

Harry Hammond Hess

1906 - 1969

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Harry Hammond Hess (May 24, 1906 – August 25, 1969) was an American geologist and a United States Navy officer in World War II who is considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Hammond Hess has received more than 309,817 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Harry Hammond Hess is the 34th most popular geologist (down from 28th in 2019), the 4,745th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,755th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Geologist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Harry Hammond Hess ranks 34 out of 90. Before him are Norman L. Bowen, Barnum Brown, Albert Heim, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Anna Missuna, and Adolphe d'Archiac. After him are Édouard Lartet, Joachim Barrande, Alexander von Keyserling, Hiroo Kanamori, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, and Arthur Holmes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Harry Hammond Hess ranks 201. Before him are Renate Müller, Walter Legge, Yakov Malik, Penn Nouth, Óscar Domínguez, and René Huyghe. After him are Alexandre Trauner, A. J. P. Taylor, Roman Karmen, Axel Cadier, František Svoboda, and Alberto Lleras Camargo. Among people deceased in 1969, Harry Hammond Hess ranks 129. Before him are Volmari Iso-Hollo, Gunnar Andersson, Aleksandr Deyneka, Karl Freund, Bill Ivy, and Friedrich von Huene. After him are Giovanni Urbani, Gabriel Chevallier, Silvestre Igoa, Filipp Oktyabrsky, George Cœdès, and Juan Modesto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Hammond Hess ranks 4,745 out of 20,380. Before him are Carrie Snodgress (1945), Gary Gygax (1938), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Frances Cleveland (1864), Susanna M. Salter (1860), and RuPaul (1960). After him are Daron Malakian (1975), Jerry Schatzberg (1927), Jerry Zucker (1950), Vince Neil (1961), Joe Haldeman (1943), and Alice Paul (1885).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United States

Among geologists born in United States, Harry Hammond Hess ranks 3. Before him are Charles Francis Richter (1900), and Barnum Brown (1873). After him are Niles Eldredge (1943), Hugo Benioff (1899), James Hall (1811), William Barton Rogers (1804), Walter Alvarez (1940), Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829), M. King Hubbert (1903), David A. Johnston (1949), and Daniel Barringer (1860).

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