Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Thomas Gold, David Deming, Marcia McNutt, Charles Francis Richter, Harry Hammond Hess, Wallace Smith Broecker, Scott Forbush, M. King Hubbert, Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Hugh W. Hardy, Cecil Howard Green, James E. Atwater, Jack Ertle Oliver, Merle Tuve, Andrew J. Feustel, Maurice Ewing, W. Jason Morgan, Gerald Gardner, Eugene McDermott, J. Clarence Karcher, Peter Langdon Ward, Leason Adams, Jeffrey C. Wynn, Bruce Bolt, Paul Silver, Sam Blakeslee, Frank Press, Michael E. Wysession, Robert S. Dietz, Everette Lee DeGolyer, Martin A. Uman, Beno Gutenberg, Claudia Alexander, Francis Birch, William Zisman, J. Lamar Worzel, Victor Vacquier, John Vidale, Tanya Atwater, Thomas A. Smith, John Baumgardner, Don L. Anderson, Ross Stein, Walter C. Pitman, III, Frederick Eugene Wright, Ernest Harry Vestine, Raymond Pierrehumbert, T. Neil Davis, Ronald E. Cohen, Charles Archambeau, H. Jay Melosh, Dallas Abbott, Thomas J. Ahrens, Tim Callahan, Robert Ladislav Parker, Henry Pollack, Ralph von Frese, Leon Knopoff, Charles Bentley, Norman Haskell, Arthur Louis Day, Paul Palmer. Excerpt: Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 - June 22, 2004) was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astronomy, aerospace engineering, and geophysics. Gold was born on May 22, 1920 in Vienna, Austria to Max Gold, a wealthy Jewish industrialist who ran one of Austria's largest mining and metal fabrication company, and German former actress Josefine Martin. Following the economic downfall of the European mining industry in the late...