Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Harrison Schmitt, William Morris Davis, Kenneth Hsu, Harry Hammond Hess, John Tuzo Wilson, M. King Hubbert, Pentti Eskola, George Gaylord Simpson, J Harlen Bretz, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Maurice Ewing, Norman D. Newell, Walter Alvarez, Alfred Romer, Arthur Holmes, Bailey Willis, Reginald Aldworth Daly, Robert Garrels, Luna Leopold, Preston Cloud, Robert S. Dietz, Philip Burke King, Francis Birch, Nelson Horatio Darton, Andrew Lawson, Arthur Philemon Coleman, Jakob Sederholm, Norman L. Bowen, John Frederick Dewey, Waldemar Lindgren, Charles Kenneth Leith, Charles Schuchert, Hans Cloos, Antoine Lacroix, Penrose Medal, Walter Hermann Bucher, Marland P. Billings, Philip Henry Kuenen, William Walden Rubey, Marshall Kay, Rudolf Trumpy, William R. Dickinson, W. G. Ernst, Herbert Harold Read, Allan V. Cox, Edward Oscar Ulrich, Arthur Louis Day. Excerpt: Kenneth J. Hsu (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: X Jinghua) Ph.D, M.A., born 28 June 1929, is a Swiss scientist, geologist, paleoclimatologist, oceanographer, government advisor, author, inventor and entrepreneur who was born in Nanjing, China. Education Hsu (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.) studied at the Chinese National Central University (later renamed Nanjing University in mainland China and reinstated in Taiwan) (B.Sc. 1948), and came to the United States in 1948 where he studied at Ohio State University (M.A., 1950), and at University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his Ph.D in 1953. Professional life Hsu worked as a petroleum geologist and environmental engineer for the Shell Development Corporation (Houston), now called Shell Oil Company, between 1954 and 1963. He also taught at U.S. universities (1963-67), before becoming Chairman of the Experimental Geology Department at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technol...