Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical...

The Oceanography Society gives out three awards—the Jerlov Award, the Walter Munk Medal, and the Oceanography Society Fellows Program. The Jerlov Award...

Munk's devil ray was first described in 1987 by the Italian ecologist Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara and named for his scientific mentor, Walter Munk...

philanthropist Salomon Munk (1803–1867), French Orientalist Walter Heinrich Munk (1917–2019), American oceanographer William Munk (1816–1898) English physician...

corresponding wave conditions can be computed through wave hindcasts. Munk, Walter H. (1950), "Origin and generation of waves", Proceedings 1st International...

for Earth Sciences at the National Science Foundation in March 1957, Walter Munk, a professor of geophysics and oceanography at the Scripps Institution...

William Menard Mario J. Molina John W. Miles B. Greg Mitchell Judith Munk Walter Munk Jerome Namias William Nierenberg Pearn P. Niiler Stewart Nozette Veerabhadran...

Philip J. Currie 2012 - Alfred S. McLaren 2013 – James Cameron 2014 – Walter Munk 2015 – Neil deGrasse Tyson 2016 – Frederick Roots 2017 - André Borschberg...

football player and businessman (b. 1926) Bert McKasy, politician (b. 1941) Walter Munk, Austrian-born oceanographer (b. 1917) Wolfgang Rindler, Austrian-born...

swell. The original definition resulted from work by the oceanographer Walter Munk during World War II. The significant wave height was intended to mathematically...

oceanography by providing data previously impossible to obtain. Oceanographer Walter Munk described TOPEX/Poseidon as "the most successful ocean experiment of...

latitude results in a narrow western boundary current in ocean basins. Walter Munk in 1950 combined the results of Rossby (eddy viscosity), Sverdrup (upper...

wind waves. The term "infragravity wave" appears to have been coined by Walter Munk in 1950. Two main processes can explain the transfer of energy from the...

electrical engineer. He spent nearly all of his career working with Prof. Walter Munk at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). The Cecil H. and Ida M...

stabilization – Coastal management practice Submersion – Aspect of coastal erosion Munk, W.H. (1950), "Origin and generation of waves", Proceedings 1st International...

edu/. Retrieved 2021-05-04. "The Walter Munk Award". Oceanography Society. Retrieved 23 November 2015. "Walter Munk Medal". The Oceanography Society....

was given by a 100-year old oceanographer Walter Munk, a friend of Revelle. Early in 2018 Ryabinin met with Munk during a meeting held at the Scripps Institution...

Sykes, USA 1996 - Robert E. Dickinson, USA ; John Imbrie, USA 1993 - Walter Munk, USA 1987 - Wallace S. Broecker, USA ; Harmon Craig, USA 1981 - Marion...

to predict this return flow. Contributions by both Henry Stommel and Walter Munk resolved this issue by showing that the return flow of gyres is done...

Tadamitsu Kishimoto Japanese Toshio Hirano Japanese 2010 Geosciences Walter Munk American “for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to our understanding...

A Geophysical Discussion, by Walter Munk and Gordon J. MacDonald. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1960 Walter Munk, Naomi Oreskes, and Richard Muller...

University of Wyoming, Laramie. pp. 67–71. Bibcode:1992ASPC...34...67P. Walter Munk; Naomi Oreskes & Richard Muller (2004). Gordon James Fraser MacDonald...

with Prof Tsukasa Nishimura of Tokyo University of Science and Prof Walter Munk of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; the Firth of Lorn in west...

psychologist recognized for her contributions to the science of learning. Walter Munk, Ph.D. (Oceanography), 1947. Oceanographer. George Perry, Ph.D. (Marine...

members included Murray Gell-Mann, S. Courtenay Wright, Robert Gomer, Walter Munk, Hans Bethe, Nick Christofilos, Fredrik Zachariasen, Marshall Rosenbluth...

William Shockley (1932) co-inventor of the transistor and Nobel laureate Walter Munk (1939) oceanographer who determined the reason for the moon's tidal locking...

its attribution to the Coriolis variation with latitude (beta effect). Walter Munk (1950) further implemented Stommel's theory of western intensification...

from retaining the services of two other young post-doctoral students, Walter Munk and Roger Revelle. Cupp's partner, Dorothy Rosenbury, found her a position...

Judith Munk (April 10, 1925 – May 19, 2006) was an American artist and designer associated with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She was inducted into...

invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method of DNA analysis Walter Munk – oceanographer, lived in La Jolla Leslie Orgel – research chemist, lived...