Honors
- 1948 – Certificate of Merit signed by President Harry Truman
- 1952 – Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- 1966 – Awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal by the National Academy of Sciences for contributions to oceanography.
- 1972 – Awarded the William Bowie Medal by the American Geophysical Union for outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics.
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