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German oceanographer
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Swedish chemist
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Scottish Canadian oceanographer
Harold Ulrik Sverdrup
Norwegian oceanographer
Georg Wüst
German oceanographer
Albert
prince of Monaco
Richard H. Fleming
American oceanographer
Sir William Abbott Herdman
British oceanographer
Bjørn Helland-Hansen
Norwegian oceanographer
Joseph Proudman
British oceanographer
