biography
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Munk, Walter H(einrich)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1917– )
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| biography:
| Oceanographer, born in Vienna, Austria. He went to the USA in 1932 and became a professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1947). He made major contributions to research on ocean acoustics, tides, and the earth's rotation. |
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