John Tuzo Wilson is a crucial importance in advancing the plate tectonics theory. Wilson had known Henry Hess in the late 1930s, when he was studying for his doctorate at Princeton University. Wilson suggested that the Hawaiian and other volcanic island chains may have formed because the movement of a plate over a stationary “hotspot” in the mantle. Another important contribution to the development of the plate tectonics theory was published two years later. Wilson proposed that there must be a third type of plate boundary to connect the oceanic ridges and trenches. Back when Wilson was still alive Wilson didn’t have advanced computers our information that could have helped him be more successful, but still Wilson was very successful even without any of today’s advancements. Wilson was a geophysicist who studied the development of plate tectonics and what might happen.
John Tuzo Wilson was born October 24, 1908 in Ottawa, Canada. Wilson was the son of a Scottish engineer who immigrated to Canada. He was a professor of geophysics at the University of Toronto from 1946
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If an idea popped into Wilson’s head he would write it down most likely. But today, people could type their notes. Also back then Wilson didn’t have much previous information that could help him with what he was doing, he learned mostly through school or experiments. Today our society has books from libraries and computers to look up information we would need. If Wilson wanted information to be delivered it would be mostly word of mouth and sometimes they had newspaper which took a long time to be delivered. Today we have have newspaper as well, but we have airplanes, cars, truck and much more that could deliver the message faster. Also we have the news and emails we can transfer information to one another. Wilson still managed to discover many things without the advancements we have