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Robert Louis Ferguson, Jr., affectionately known as "Bobby Flame," passed away peacefully at home on . Born on , in Glenridge, New Jersey, Robert lived a life marked by dedication, kindness, and a relentless passion for his craft.
Today, Marie Tharp is recognized for the revolutionary that she was. In 1997, the Library of Congress named her as one of the four greatest cartographers of the 20th century. She died of cancer in 2006 at the age of 86, but her legacy lives on in the countless women scientists she has inspired.
Marie Tharp ( – ) was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer. In the 1950s, she collaborated with geologist Bruce Heezen to produce the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. [1]
Marie Tharp was an American geologist and marine cartographer whose groundbreaking studies into ocean floors and discovery of the mid-Atlantic rift valley challenged the widely accepted geological views of the time.
Marie Tharp was an oceanographer and cartographer who made revolutionary discoveries about the dynamic nature of the ocean floor and how the continents had been formed.
Tharp passed away in 2006, but her work has forever changed the fields of geology and ocean exploration. Below, read some of the lesser-known facts about this history-making cartographer.