biography
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Stommel, Henry M(elson)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1920– )
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| biography:
| Oceanographer, born in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He was a physical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1944–59) before joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1959–60). He left MIT to teach at Harvard (1960–3), returned to MIT (1963–78), then moved back to Woods Hole as senior scientist. Using physical models, he developed the first theory of the Gulf Stream, and made major contributions to studies of cumulus clouds, oceanic salinity and thermal gradients, and plankton distribution. He shared Sweden's Crafoord Prize in 1983. |
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