Harry Hess 1906 - 1969 Harry Hess became a professor of geology at Princeton in 1932. His specialty was the study of arced chains of islands with active volcanoes. When World War II started, he was part of the Naval Reserve. He commanded a submarine base during World War II, and remaining in the Reserves afterwards, rose to the rank of rear admiral. Hess's first duty during the war was in New ...

Harry Hammond Hess: Spreading the seafloor Harry Hess (1906-1969) in his Navy uniform as Captain of the assault transport Cape Johnson during World War II. After the war, he remained active in the Naval Reserve, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral. (Photograph courtesy of Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University.) Harry Hammond Hess, a professor of geology at ...

HARRY HAMMOND HESS (1906-1969) Harry Hammond Hess was born in New York City on May 24, 1906, and suffered a fatal heart attack in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on August 25, 1969, while chairing a meeting of the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Although Hess entered Yale University as an electrical engineering major in 1923, after 2 years he changed to a major in geology, ...