where is he from?
Ottawa, Canada.
John Tuzo Wilson
He was born in Ottawa on October 24, 1908, the son of John Armistead Wilson CBE, and his wife, Henrietta Tuzo. Wilson's father was of Scottish descent and his mother was a third-generation Canadian of French descent.

He became one of the first people in Canada to receive a degree in geophysics, graduating from Trinity College at the University of T
when is the last time mauna kea erupted 6,000 to 4,000 years ago. who were the early settlers here? Ancient Hawaiians. what are a few of its geological features? It is the largest and youngest island of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain and it is the fourth oldest and fourth most active volcano. how old is this chain? The Emperor Seamounts is 81 million years. what is this chain? It is a mostly undersea mountain range in the Pacific Ocean that reaches above sea level in Hawaii. how does this place get its name? After Hawaii and former emperors of Japan. how was it formed? They were created by a hotspot of volcanic activity that was essentially stationary as the Pacific tectonic plate drifted in a northwesterly direction, leaving a trail of increasingly eroded volcanic islands and seamounts in its wake. was wilson anyway connected to this theory? Yes, in 1963, geologist John Tuzo Wilson came up with this.
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He was born in Ottawa on October 24, 1908, the son of John Armistead Wilson CBE, and his wife, Henrietta Tuzo. Wilson's father was of Scottish descent and his mother was a third-generation Canadian of French descent. He became one of the first people in Canada to receive a degree in geophysics, graduating from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 1930. He obtained a second (BA) degree from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1932 and then a doctorate (ScD). He then pursued further graduate studies as Princeton University, where he received a Ph.D. in geology in 1936 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The Geology of the Mill creek - Stillwater Area, Montana." After completing his studies in 1936, Wilson joined the Canadian Geological Survey as a government geologist.