Maurice Ewing

Geophysicist and Oceanographer

Male

Born May 12, 1906

Hometown Lockney, Texas

Died May 4, 1974

Nationality United States

Other Names Ewing, William Ma...

William Maurice "Doc" Ewing was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.

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Avarilla Grace Hildenbrand

Married 1928
Margot Kidder
Dated

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Union County Eyes Shifting Its Tax Base Charlotte Observer
Google News - Aug 19, 2011

'The partnership itself is in flux, as its president and chief executive officer, Maurice Ewing, announced last week he is retiring as of Feb. 15. Ewing had led the partnership since June 2004. One of the group's most ambitious projects,'
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Union Economic Development Chief Retiring Charlotte Observer
Google News - Aug 11, 2011

'Maurice Ewing, the head of Union County's economic development arm, announced today he is retiring as of Feb. 15. Ewing has been the Union County Partnership for Progress CEO and president since June 2004. He previously ran Cabarrus'
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Acs Honors Los Angeles General Surgeon With 2011 Jacobson Innovation Award News Medical.Net
Google News - Jun 13, 2011

'Maurice Ewing at the University of Melbourne. While at the university, he started his studies on recovery of retained biliary duct stones, as well as biliary endoscopy, and imaging in operative cholangiography. His work in endoscopy started in'
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How To Reverse Engineer Criticism Business Week
Google News - May 27, 2011

'Take Wal-Mart, for example By Maurice Ewing Good companies always strive to be better and a potentially useful way to catalyze such improvement is to consider how analyst and public criticism might be used to institute corporate change'
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1906 Birth Born in 1906.

TWENTIES

1926 20 Years Old He was born in Lockney, Texas, where he was the eldest child of a large farm family. He won a scholarship to attend Rice University, earning a B.A. with honors in 1926.

1927 21 Years Old He completing his graduate studies at the same institution, earning an M.A. in 1927 and being awarded his Ph.D. in 1931.

1928 22 Years Old In 1928 he was married to Avarilla Hildenbrand, and the couple had a son.

FORTIES

1947 41 Years Old He moved to Columbia University, becoming a professor of geology in 1947.

FIFTIES

1959 53 Years Old In 1959 he was named the Higgins Professor of Geology at Columbia. … Read More

1965 59 Years Old He divorced a second time, and married Harriet Greene Bassett in 1965.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1972 66 Years Old In 1972 he joined the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and was named the head of the Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences of the Marine Biomedical Institute. … Read More

1974 68 Years Old Died in 1974.

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