Reverend Osmond Fisher (November 17, 1817, Osmington, Dorset, England – July 12, 1914, Huntingdon, England) was an English geologist and geophysicist. Fisher worked on the geomorphology of Norfolk, as well as the stratigraphy and invertebrate fossils of Dorset. He had published The Physics of the Earth’s Crust (1881), in which he described the mechanism of plate tectonics through a convection current in the earth's molten interior.

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  • Reverend Osmond Fisher (November 17, 1817, Osmington, Dorset, England – July 12, 1914, Huntingdon, England) was an English geologist and geophysicist. Fisher worked on the geomorphology of Norfolk, as well as the stratigraphy and invertebrate fossils of Dorset. He had published The Physics of the Earth’s Crust (1881), in which he described the mechanism of plate tectonics through a convection current in the earth's molten interior. This was the most prominent work on the topic since Alexander von Humboldt, however it went largely ignored until the work of Alfred Wegener. Much of his work into continental drift went ridiculed, while other geologists of the time clung to their Solid State Theory. However his observations were all based on careful scientific deductions rather than simple speculation. He also published theories on the moon, proposing that the Pacific Ocean was the mark left where the moon split from the earth. However the Pacific Ocean is both chemically dissimilar and much younger than the moon. He was also the author of the first geophysics textbook. He was the recipient of the Murchison Medal in 1893 and the Wollaston Medal in 1913.
  • Osmond Fisher est un géologue britannique. Il travaille sur la géomorphologie du Norfolk et sur la stratigraphie du Dorset. Indépendamment de Léonce Élie de Beaumont il propose une théorie de l'orogenèse basé sur le modèle de la Terre en refroidissement. Il note aussi les similitudes de forme entre les côtes de certains continents et proposent qu'ils étaient réunis dans un lointain passé. Tout comme Alexander von Humboldt, Fisher est largement ignoré par les autres géologues sur ce point. Toutefois ses observations sont marqués par une approche scientifique plutôt que par une approche spéculative. Il publie aussi sur la Lune proposant que l'océan Pacifique soit la marque laissé par la séparation de la Terre et de la lune, les données modernes sur l'âge de l'océan Pacifique montre que c'est impossible. Son livre The Physics of the Earth's Crust (1881) est l'un des premiers dans le domaine de la géophysique. Fisher reçoit la médaille Murchison en 1893 et la médaille Wollaston en 1913. Il meurt le 12 juillet 1914 à Huntingdon dans le Cambridgeshire.
  • オズモンド・フィシャー（Osmond Fisher、1817年11月17日 - 1914年7月12日）はイギリスの地質学者、地球物理学者である。 ドーセット州 Osmington で生まれた。ノーフォーク州の地形学、地層学、ドーセット州の無脊椎動物の化石の研究を行った。 1881年に『地球の地殻の物理学』(Physics of the Earth’s Crust) を著し、地球の内部の溶体の対流によってプレート・テクトニクスのメカニズムを説明した。アレクサンダー・フォン・フンボルト以来の大陸移動説の歴史で重要な説であったが、アルフレート・ヴェーゲナーがあらわれるまで無視されていた。 また月が地球から分離してできたという説を主張し、太平洋は月が分離した痕であるとしたが、月と太平洋の海底の地殻の化学成分は異なり、また海底の地殻の年齢が月の年齢よりも若いことから否定されている。
  • Reverendo Osmond Fisher foi um geólogo britânico. Foi um dos primeiros autores no ramo da geofísica. Foi laureado com a medalha Murchison em 1893 e com a medalha Wollaston em 1913, ambas pela Sociedade Geológica de Londres.
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  • Reverend Osmond Fisher (November 17, 1817, Osmington, Dorset, England – July 12, 1914, Huntingdon, England) was an English geologist and geophysicist. Fisher worked on the geomorphology of Norfolk, as well as the stratigraphy and invertebrate fossils of Dorset. He had published The Physics of the Earth’s Crust (1881), in which he described the mechanism of plate tectonics through a convection current in the earth's molten interior.
  • Osmond Fisher est un géologue britannique. Il travaille sur la géomorphologie du Norfolk et sur la stratigraphie du Dorset. Indépendamment de Léonce Élie de Beaumont il propose une théorie de l'orogenèse basé sur le modèle de la Terre en refroidissement. Il note aussi les similitudes de forme entre les côtes de certains continents et proposent qu'ils étaient réunis dans un lointain passé.
  • Reverendo Osmond Fisher foi um geólogo britânico. Foi um dos primeiros autores no ramo da geofísica. Foi laureado com a medalha Murchison em 1893 e com a medalha Wollaston em 1913, ambas pela Sociedade Geológica de Londres.
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