Walter Munk: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Walter Heinrich Munk
Born October 19, 1917 • Vienna • Austria
Died February 8, 2019 (aged 101) • San Diego • California
Subjects Of Study ocean current

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Henry Melson Stommel
American meteorologist and oceanographer
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Robert S. Dietz
American geophysicist
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Richard H. Fleming
American oceanographer
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Georg Wüst
German oceanographer
Dr. Sylvia A. Earle, wearing a red jacket, sits beside a small deep-sea submersible with a glass dome and camera equipment.
Sylvia Earle
American oceanographer and explorer
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Marcia McNutt
American geophysicist
Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard
American oceanographer
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Matthew Fontaine Maury
American hydrographer
Kathryn Sullivan
Kathryn Sullivan
American oceanographer and astronaut
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Columbus O’D. Iselin
American oceanographer
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Merle Antony Tuve
American geophysicist
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Dirk Brouwer
Dutch-born American astronomer and geophysicist
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Maurice Ewing
American geophysicist
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Marion King Hubbert
American geophysicist
Day, Arthur L.
Arthur L. Day
American geophysicist
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Conrad Schlumberger
German geophysicist
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Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Nansen, Fridtjof
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian explorer and scientist
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Milutin Milankovitch
Serbian mathematician and geophysicist
V. Walfrid Ekman, 1928
V. Walfrid Ekman
Swedish scientist