Richard P. Von Herzen (1930–2016) was an Earth scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who pioneered studies of heat flowing from the seafloor.
He won the 1998 Maurice Ewing Medal.
[1] He graduated from California Institute of Technology (BA), Harvard University (MA), and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (PhD).
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