biography
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Bullard, Sir Edward (Crisp)
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| lived:
| (1907–80)
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| biography:
| Geophysicist, born in Norwich, Norfolk, E England, UK. He studied in Cambridge, was professor at Toronto (1946–9), director of the National Physical Laboratory (1950–5), and director of the department of geodesy and geophysics at Cambridge (1964–74). He made the first satisfactory measurements of geothermal heat-flow through the oceanic crust, and helped to develop the theory of continental drift. He was knighted in 1953. |
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