Marie Tharp
1920 – 2006 · United States · Biology, Astronomy
Mapped the ocean floor and proved continental drift.
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- Mario Molina
1943 – 2020 · Chemistry
Tharp's ocean-floor mapping helped make planetary-scale geophysics a policy science.
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