 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz

Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (1887–1966) was a Dutch geophysicist and oceanographer renowned for his contributions to the study of Earth's gravity field and the analysis of isostasy, which is the gravitational equilibrium between the Earth's crust and mantle. He developed various methods for measuring gravity and created the Vening Meinesz compensation hypothesis, which helped to explain the distribution of gravity anomalies and their relationships to geological structures.