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    Captain Nicholas Hunter Heck (1 September 1882 – 21 December 1953) was a career officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps. A leading...
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    investigate the use of acoustics in both depth finding and navigation. Nicholas H. Heck (1882–1953), a Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps officer, had been assigned...
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    into hydrography, and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey′s Nicholas H. Heck played a prominent role in developing and perfecting the technique...
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  • immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima Nicholas H. Heck (1882–1953), United States Coast and Geodetic Survey captain, geophysicist...
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    representative, businessman, and farmer, was born in Dauphin County. Nicholas H. Heck (1882–1953), a geophysicist, seismologist, oceanographer, hydrographic...
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  • Millikan, physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868) December 21 – Nicholas H. Heck, geophysicist, oceanographer and surveyor (born 1882) December 29 –...
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    German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) September 1 – Nicholas H. Heck, American geophysicist, oceanographer, and surveyor (d. 1953) September...
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    Jackson Humphreys (1932–1935) Nicholas H. Heck (1935–1938) Richard M. Field (1938–1941) Walter C. Lowdermilk (1941–1944) Leason H. Adams (1944–1947) Oscar...
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  • E., 1968, Hon. D.Eng., 1988), NASA Space Shuttle astronaut Captain Nicholas H. Heck (AB 1903, BSCE 1904), geophysicist, seismologist, oceanographer, hydrographic...
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  • (1944–2022) The Washington Post". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2022-10-18. "Albertus H. Baldwin". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2022-10-23...
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