Scientist. A native of Vinton, Iowa, he was a well-known geologist and oceanographer. A graduate of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, he received his B.A. in 1947, and his M.A. from Columbia University in 1952, and then in 1957 his Ph.D. During the 1950s, he was a member of an exploration team from Columbia University that discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The ridge is mostly an underwater mountain range of the Atlantic Ocean that runs about 333km South of the North Pole to subantarctic Bouvet Island, then turning into the Atlantic-Indian-Ridge, then continuing East through the Crozet Plateau to the Southwest Indian Ridge, and then in the West it is followed by Scotia Ridge. He died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 53. The oceanographic ship, the U.S.N.S. Bruce C. Heezen was christened in his memory in 1999.
Scientist. A native of Vinton, Iowa, he was a well-known geologist and oceanographer. A graduate of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, he received his B.A. in 1947, and his M.A. from Columbia University in 1952, and then in 1957 his Ph.D. During the 1950s, he was a member of an exploration team from Columbia University that discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The ridge is mostly an underwater mountain range of the Atlantic Ocean that runs about 333km South of the North Pole to subantarctic Bouvet Island, then turning into the Atlantic-Indian-Ridge, then continuing East through the Crozet Plateau to the Southwest Indian Ridge, and then in the West it is followed by Scotia Ridge. He died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 53. The oceanographic ship, the U.S.N.S. Bruce C. Heezen was christened in his memory in 1999.
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