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> Matuyama, Motonori (1884 1958) Japanese geologist Matuyama, who was born at Uyeda (now Usa) in Japan, was the son of a Zen abbot. He was educated at the University of Hiroshima and the Imperial University in Kyoto, where he was appointed to a lectureship in 1913. After spending the period ...
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A History of Geology and Planetary Science — Part 2
Gates of Vienna —
... The Japanese geophysicist Motonori Matuyama (1884-1958) was the son of a Zen abbot. After studies at the Imperial University in Kyoto, he worked in Chicago with the American geologist Thomas Chamberlin (1843-1928). Matuyama proposed that long periods had existed in the geological past in which the polarity of the magnetic poles was ...
A History of Geology and Planetary Science - Part 2
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe —
... The Japanese geophysicist Motonori Matuyama
(1884-1958) was the son of a Zen abbot. After studies at the Imperial
University in Kyoto, he worked in Chicago with the American geologist Thomas
Chamberlin (1843-1928). Matuyama proposed that long periods had existed in the
geological past in which the polarity of the magnetic poles was ...
A History of Geology and Planetary Science
Gates of Vienna —
... (1867-1910) discovered that the Earth’s magnetic field had changed direction in the geological past, but it took decades before his discovery was accepted by the scientific community. The Japanese geophysicist otonori Matuyama (1884-1958), the son of a Zen abbot, after studies at the Imperial University in Kyoto worked in Chicago with the American geologist Thomas Chamberlin (1843-1928). Matuyama proposed that long periods had existed in the geological past in which the polarity of the Earth’s magnetic poles was ...
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