Canadian geologist and industrialist who founded (1950) Dome Petroleum Ltd., built it into a large, successful oil and gas company, and pioneered in exploration in the Beaufort Sea area; he left the company in 1983 as accumulated debt threatened it, and it was taken over in 1988 (b. July 16, 1916, Winnipeg, Man.--d. Dec. 16, 1998, Calgary, Alta.).
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