Walter Munk
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1917 –
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Who is Walter Munk?
Walter Heinrich Munk is an American physical oceanographer. He is professor of geophysics emeritus and holds the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.
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- Born
- Oct 19, 1917
Vienna - Also known as
- Walter H. Munk
- Walter Heinrich Munk
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Austria
- Profession
- Education
- California Institute of Technology
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Columbia University
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Oceanography
( - 1947)
- Lived in
- Vienna
- California
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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