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Google celebrates the life of Marie Tharp with an interactive doodle – Times of India

Google celebrates the life of Marie Tharp with an interactive doodle – Times of India
Google has created a new doodle today (November 21) celebrating the life of American geologist and oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp. Marie helped in proving the theories of continental drift. She also co-published the first world map of ocean floors.
The Google Doodle today consists of an interactive exploration of Tharp’s life. Her story is narrated by Caitlyn Larsen, Rebecca Nesel, and Dr Tiara Moore, three notable women who are currently living out Tharp’s legacy. On this day in 1998, the Library of Congress named Tharp one of the greatest cartographers of the 20th century.
Born in July 1920, Marie Tharp was an only child. Tharp’s father worked for the US Department of Agriculture and gave her an early introduction to mapmaking. She attended the University of Michigan for her master’s degree in petroleum geology—this was particularly impressive given so few women worked in science during this period.
She moved to New York City in 1948 and became the first woman to work at the Lamont Geological Observatory where she met geologist Bruce Heezen.
Tharp donated her entire map collection to the Library of Congress in 1995. On the 100th anniversary celebration of its Geography and Map Division, the Library of Congress named her one of the most important cartographers of the 20th century. In 2001, the same observatory where she started her career, awarded her its first annual Lamont-Doherty Heritage Award.

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