Researching William Sager
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 431 people with the Sager surname? In that year Sager was ranked number 3148 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Sager on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Sager and the Sager Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Sager surname in the USA? Sager is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called William Sager
William Sager
William W. Sager (born August 22, 1954, in Washington, DC) is a marine geophysicist from the University of Houston. Before joining the Houston faculty in 2013, he held the Jane and R. Ken Williams ’45 Chair in Ocean Drilling Science at Texas A&M University from 2003 to 2012.
He is best known for his discovery of Tamu Massif—the largest volcano on Earth. Sager began studying Tamu Massif near the end of the 1990s at the Texas A&M College of Geosciences. He and his team published their findings in the September 2013 issue of Nature Geoscience.
Sager did his undergraduate studies in physics at Duke University, graduating magna cum laude in 1976. He went on to graduate studies at the University of Hawaii, finishing his doctorate in marine geophysics in 1983. In the same year, he joined the Texas A&M faculty as an assistant professor.
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