biography
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| (1890–1965)
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| biography:
| Geologist, born in Hebburn, Tyne and Wear, NE England, UK. Professor of geology at Durham (1924–43) and Edinburgh (1943–56), he determined the ages of rocks by measuring their radioactive constituents, and was an early scientific supporter of Alfred Wegener's continental drift theory. He wrote The Age of the Earth (1913) and Principles of Physical Geology (1944). |
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