Lawrence Morley

Lawrence Morley

Infobox Scientist
name = Lawrence Whitaker Morley, Ph.D.


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birth_place = Toronto, Ontario
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residence = CAN
citizenship = Canadian
nationality = Canadian
field = Geophysics
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alma_mater = University of Toronto
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known_for = Founding the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing Study of magnetic properties of ocean crust.
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prizes = Officer of the Order of Canada, 1999 McCurdy award, 1974 [ [http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=201 science.ca Profile] . Retrieved February 11, 2007.]
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Lawrence (Whitaker) Morley, Ph.D. (1920-) is a Canadian geophysicist. He is best known for his studies on the magnetic properties of ocean crust and their effect on plate tectonics.

Biography

Lawrence has worked along Britons Fred Vine and Drummond Matthews. The three contributed significantly to geology by relating the magnetic properties of ocean crust to the processes involved in the theory of plate tectonics. Following graduate studies at the University of Toronto, he became Director of the Geophysics Branch of the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa (1950-1969). In 1970 he founded the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing and served as its General Director until 1979.

In 1974, Morley received an honorary degree from York University. [ [http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/senate/committees/hondeg/recipients.htm Honorary Degree Recipients] . Retrieved February 12, 2007.] He approached the university's faculty of science in 1985 to promote the creation of an institute of space research, which was founded by himself in 1986 as the Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science (ISTS). [Morley, L. (1993) "Remote sensing then and now." Ottawa: CCRS. [http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/org/history/index_e.php] ]

Lawrence also served as a radar officer for the Royal Canadian Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic during the second World War. He has also published over 65 scientific and technical papers on mineral exploration and remote sensing. [ [http://www.oars.on.ca/honorary/morley.php Ontario Association of Remote Sensing] . Retrieved February 12, 2007.] hatchk

ee also

* Natural Resources Canada
* Geophysics

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NAME= Morley, Lawrence Whitaker
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DATE OF BIRTH= February 19, 1920
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