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Melvin N.A. Peterson (center) professor of oceanography and who also directed the Deep Sea Drilling Project from Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1971 to 1986, shown here with two unidentified men aboard the research ship D/V Glomar Challenger. Circa 1968.

Melvin N.A. Peterson (center) professor of oceanography and who also directed the Deep Sea Drilling Project from Scripps I...