biography
| name: |
Iselin, Columbus O'Donnell
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–71)
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| biography:
| Oceanographer, born in New Rochelle, New York, USA. He served the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1932–70), while concurrently teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1959–70) and Harvard (1960–70). He developed the bathythermograph and other deep-sea instruments responsible for saving ships during World War 2. He made major contributions to research on ocean salinity and temperature, acoustics, and the oceanography of the Gulf Stream. |
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