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Born October 16, 1877 • Oslo • Norway
Died September 7, 1957 (aged 79) • Bergen • Norway
Nansen, Fridtjof
Fridtjof Nansen
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Harold Ulrik Sverdrup
Norwegian oceanographer
Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Earle
American oceanographer and explorer
Walter Munk
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Klaus Hasselmann
German oceanographer
Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard
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Matthew Fontaine Maury
Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Kathryn Sullivan
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Henry Melson Stommel
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Robert S. Dietz
American geophysicist
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
Columbus O’D. Iselin
American oceanographer
Murray, Sir John
Sir John Murray
Scottish Canadian oceanographer
Georg Wüst
German oceanographer
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Albert
prince of Monaco
Richard H. Fleming
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Joseph Proudman
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