Harold Wellman
Harold William Wellman (25 March 1909 – 28 April 1999) was a New Zealand geologist known for his work on plate tectonics.
He is notable for his discovery of South Island's Alpine Fault.[1] Wellman became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1954, and was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal and Prize in 1957 and the McKay Hammer Award in 1959.
References
- ↑ Grapes, Rodney H.; Patterson, John (December 2009). "Alexander McKay and the awatere fault, New Zealand: Ground rupturing and large‐scale horizontal displacement". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 52 (4): 349–365. doi:10.1080/00288306.2009.9518463.
See also
External links
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entry on Wellman
- 1966 encyclopedia entry on Wellman
- BBC Horizon "The Man Who Moved the Mountains" (13 April 1992)
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