Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (30 July 1887 – 10 August 1966) was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist. He is known for his invention of a precise method...
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size of India itself. Discovered in 1948 by Dutch geophysicist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz as a result of a ship's gravity survey, it remained largely a...
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of the Ethical movement Felix Agnus (1839–1925), American military officer and newspaper editor Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (1887–1966), Dutch geophysicist...
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European Geophysical Society (EGS). The medal is named in honor of Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, a Dutch geophysicists and geodesist, famous for his invention...
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An Introduction to Oceanography. During the 1920s and 1930s, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz measured gravity over trenches using a newly developed gravimeter...
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theories of isostasy into his own, the Heiskanen hypothesis. With Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, he wrote the textbook The Earth and its Gravity Field (1958)...
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measurement with pendulums Kibble balance § Effect of gravity Felix Andries Vening Meinesz – Dutch geophysicist and geodesist Geophysical survey – Systematic...
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Yrjö Väisälä, 1889–1971 (Finland) Petr Vaníček, 1935 (Canada) Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz, 1887–1966 (Netherlands) Thaddeus Vincenty, 1920–2002 (Poland)...
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Cecil Edgar Tilley 1961 Roman Kozłowski 1962 Leonard Hawkes 1963 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz 1964 Harold Jeffreys 1965 D. M. S. Watson 1966 Francis Parker...
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Molengraaff and discoverer of gravity anomalies above the sea level Felix Andries Vening Meinesz. Since TU Delft is a home to a major architecture school in the...
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Émile Argand Alfred Wegener Roberto Mantovani Arthur Holmes Felix Andries Vening Meinesz Samuel Warren Carey Robert R. Coats Edward Bullard W. Jason Morgan...
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mineralogist Jan Veizer (born 1941), Canadian isotope geochemist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (1887–1966), Dutch geophysicist and gravimetric geodesist Rogier...
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classification, Karl H. Strunz, Mineralogische Tabellen 1948–1959 – Felix Andries Vening Meinesz investigations show gravity anomalies, implying that the crust...
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Hans Cloos 1947 Arthur Louis Day 1946 T. Wayland Vaughan 1945 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz 1944 Bailey Willis 1943 No award given 1942 Charles Kenneth Leith...
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United Kingdom 1962 - Sir Harold Jeffreys, United Kingdom 1962 - Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Netherlands 1960 - W. Maurice Ewing, USA List of geology awards...
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measurements in the Caribbean Sea using a gravimeter designed by Dr. Felix Andries Vening Meinesz. Such measurements required the stability and lack of motion...
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strength of lithosphere; identified the South Pacific superswell Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (Dutch, 1887–1966) – developed a precise gravimeter and discovered...
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(Engineering) 1934 - Ernst Georg Fischer (Engineering) 1936 - Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (Engineering) 1937 - John Clyde Hostetter (Engineering) 1938...
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Hungarian winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. August 10 – Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (born 1887), Dutch geophysicist. October 1 – Mary Logan Reddick...
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1975), English biologist and populariser of science. July 30 – Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (died 1966), Dutch geophysicist. August 18 – Erwin Schrödinger...
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she arrived on 11 July 1935 in Surabaya. During this journey Felix Andries Vening Meinesz conducted gravity measurements, as he had previously done aboard...
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Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes 1946 Reginald Aldworth Daly 1947 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz 1948 James B. Macelwane 1949 Walter Davis Lambert 1950 Leason...
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(Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum). Retrieved 3 May 2020. "Felix Andries Vening Meinesz", KNAW Historisch Ledenbestand (Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch...
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van der Meer, Dutch engineer and Nobel Prize winner in physics Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geologist Anne Menke, German-born photographer Bert Metz...
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Veerman, Dutch politician Jacq Firmin Vogelaar, Dutch novelist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist and geodesist Aaldert Wapstra, Dutch physicist...
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Vasalis, poet (1909-1998) Adriaan Venema, writer (1941-1993) Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (1887-1966) Gerrard Verhage, director (1948-2008)...
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Roughton Birbal Sahni Ernest Basil Verney Sigmund Freud Ludwig Jost Felix Andries Vening Meinesz Hermann Weyl Sir Thomas Hudson Middleton "Fellowship of the Royal...
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Ivanovich Vavilov 1942-06-18 26 November 1887 – 26 January 1943 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz 1936-06-25 30 July 1887 – 10 August 1966 Phillippe Edouard Poulletier...
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Fontana Felici's law Felix Andries Vening Meinesz Felix Berezin Felix Bloch Felix Ehrenhaft Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten Felix Villars Felix Weinberg Feng Duan...
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impossibility ((Revelle 1944) cited in (Bullard 1975)). 1948, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist who believes in convection currents as a...
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