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...

1948. With Harald Sverdrup as the SIO director, recent graduate student Walter Munk was recalled from the army and together they were tasked with aiding...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

philanthropist Salomon Munk (1803–1867), German-born Jewish-French Orientalist Walter Heinrich Munk (1917–2019), American oceanographer William Munk (1816–1898)...

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

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...

Sverdrup". Zeitschrift für Meteorologie. 11 (9): 257–259. Revelle, Roger; Munk, Walter (1948). "Harald Ulrik Sverdrup – An Appreciation" (PDF). Journal of Marine...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

inflammatory diseases” Tadamitsu Kishimoto Toshio Hirano 2010 Geosciences Walter Munk “for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to our understanding...

Harold Clayton Urey 1967 Allan Sandage Hannes Alfvén 1968 Fred Hoyle Walter Munk 1969 Martin Schwarzschild Albert Thomas Price 1970 Horace W. Babcock...

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

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...

Joel Blass, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012) 1917 – Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer, author, and academic (d. 2019) 1917...

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

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

psychologist recognized for her contributions to the science of learning. Walter Munk, Ph.D. (Oceanography), 1947. Oceanographer. Bruce Ovbiagele, MAS (Leadership...

Oceanography in 1954, studying under renowned physicist and oceanographer, Walter Munk. As a graduate student, he purchased a 110 ft Navy reconnaissance vessel...