Claim: Cecil Howard Green, a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog, was awarded the Maurice Ewing Medal in 1978.
Evidence: Cecil Howard Green KBE (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1978, he was given the inaugural Maurice Ewing Medal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, its highest award.