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Also Known As Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
Born November 15, 1888 • Norway • (Birthday in 2 days)
Died August 21, 1957 (aged 68) • Oslo • Norway
Notable Works “Oceanography for Meteorologists”
Subjects Of Study Sverdrup transport • breaker • equatorial countercurrent
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Henry Melson Stommel
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Nansen, Fridtjof
Fridtjof Nansen
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Vilhelm Bjerknes
Norwegian meteorologist
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Jacob Bjerknes
Norwegian-American meteorologist
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Sverre Petterssen
meteorologist
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Bjørn Helland-Hansen
Norwegian oceanographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
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A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
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Wladimir Köppen
German climatologist
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Tetsuya Fujita
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Milutin Milankovitch
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Sylvia Earle
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Walter Munk
American geophysicist and oceanographer
Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard
American oceanographer
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Klaus Hasselmann
German oceanographer
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Manabe Syukuro
American meteorologist
Portrait of Alfred Lothar Wegener wearing a suit and tie, looking directly at the camera.
Alfred Wegener
German meteorologist and geophysicist
Samuel P. Langley.
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