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Richard Y. Morita, in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1950, on a break from Scripps' MidPac Expedition. Morita received his PhD in microbiology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His doctoral dissertation was titled: Occurrence and Significance of Bacteria in Marine Sediments. While a graduate student at Scripps, Morita served as a microbiologist on the MidPac Expedition (1950).

Richard Y. Morita, in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1950, on a break from Scripps' MidPac Expedition. Morita received his PhD in micro...