Whose discovery linked fossils to plate tectonics through magnetic stripes?

British geophysicists Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews proposed in 1963 that the magnetic stripes on the ocean floor recorded reversals of Earth's magnetic field as new crust formed at mid-ocean ridges. Because the stripes are symmetrical on both sides of a ridge, they showed that seafloor was being created and moving outward. This provided powerful proof for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. Their idea helped turn a controversial hypothesis into an accepted theory.