biography
| name: |
Vening Meinesz, Felix Andries
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pronunciation:
[miynes]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1966)
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| biography:
| Geophysicist, a pioneer of submarine gravity measurements, born in The Hague, W Netherlands. After graduating in civil engineering from the Technical University of Delft (1910), he worked on a gravity survey of The Netherlands. He was appointed professor of geodesy at Utrecht (1927), and professor of geophysics at Delft (1938–57). He devised a gravity measuring instrument for use on unstable platforms, modified it for use in submarines to enable gravity surveys of the ocean floor, and made the first marine gravity determinations in the Pacific in 1923. His later voyages led him to deduce the presence of subduction zones, where compressive down-buckling of oceanic crust occurs. |
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