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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
Henry Melson Stommel
American meteorologist and oceanographer
Robert S. Dietz
American geophysicist
Richard H. Fleming
American oceanographer
Georg Wüst
German oceanographer
Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Earle
American oceanographer and explorer
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
Columbus O’D. Iselin
American oceanographer
Merle Antony Tuve
American geophysicist
Dirk Brouwer
American astronomer
Maurice Ewing
American geophysicist
Marion King Hubbert
American geophysicist
Day, Arthur L.
Arthur L. Day
American geophysicist
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Conrad Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Nansen, Fridtjof
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian explorer and scientist
Milutin Milankovitch
Serbian mathematician and geophysicist
V. Walfrid Ekman, 1928
V. Walfrid Ekman
Swedish scientist

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