https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/science/jason-morgan-dead.html
"W. Jason Morgan, who in 1967 developed the theory of plate tectonics — a
framework that revolutionized the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and the slow,
steady shift of the continents across the earth’s mantle — died on July 31 at
his home in Natick, Mass. He was 87.
His children, Jason and Michèle Morgan, confirmed the death.
The notion that the earth’s surface moved was not new when Professor Morgan,
who taught at Princeton University, first presented his theory at a meeting of
the American Geophysical Union in Washington in April 1967. People had long
noticed, for example, that the northeastern edge of South America seemed to
match the notch along Africa’s western coast, and wondered if they had once fit
together like puzzle pieces.
By the mid-20th century, researchers had made significant steps forward in
studying the movement of the earth’s surface, including the discovery that
stretches of the sea floor were spreading apart. But the idea, called
continental drift, remained highly debated into the 1960s, and no one had come
up with a way to synthesize it all into a grand, testable framework."
Via Bill Daul.
RIP,
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