John Tuzo Wilson, known as J. Tuzo Wilson, was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist at the University of Toronto who lived from 1908 to 1993 and became internationally renowned for his contributions to plate tectonics theory. He introduced the concept of hot spots, regions of the mantle hotter than their surroundings, exemplified by the Hawaii hotspot, and developed the theory of transform faults, plate boundaries where two plates move past each other horizontally, of which the San Andreas Fault is an example. His influential 1968 paper on what became called the Wilson cycle described the pattern of ocean basin opening and closing associated with the assembly and breakup of supercontinents. He served as principal of Erindale College from 1968 to 1974 and Chancellor of York University from 1983 to 1986, was a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Canada, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada. He received the Penrose Medal in 1968.
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John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist, geologist and professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics.
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John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908
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John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908
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Wilson was born in Ottawa on October 24, 1908
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John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908, April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist, geologist and professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga
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John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908, April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist, geologist and professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga
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He retired in 1986 and died in Toronto on April 15, 1993.
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was a Canadian geophysicist, geologist
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geophysicist, geologist and professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga
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The Wilson cycle of seabed expansion and contraction (associated with the Supercontinent cycle) bears his name.
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John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908, April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist, geologist and professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics.
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John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908, April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist, geologist and professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics.
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He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Canada, and of th
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