| LC control no. | n 84030679 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Munk, W. H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-2019 Munk, Walter, 1917-2019 Munk, Walter Heinrich, 1917- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1917-10-19 |
| Death date | 2019-02-08 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Place of death | La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Oceanography Geophysics |
| Affiliation | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Profession or occupation | Oceanographers Geophysicists College teachers |
| Found in | A Celebration in geophysics and oceanography--1982, 1984: t.p. (Walter Munk) LC data base 7/13/84 (hdg.: Munk, Walter Heinrich, 1917- ; usage: Walter H. Munk, W. H. Munk) Wikipedia, June 19, 2011 (Walter Munk; Walter Heinrich Munk (b. Oct. 19, 1917, Vienna, Austria); American physical oceanographer) Day, D. Walter Heinrich Munk biography, 2005, via WWW, June 19, 2011: PDF t.p. (Walter H. Munk) p. 1 (Walter Heinrich Munk; b. in Vienna on 19 Oct. 1917) p. 2 (Walter Munk) <http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/biogr/Munk_Biogr.pdf> Wikipedia, Feb. 11, 2019 (Walter Munk; Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 - February 8, 2019) was an American physical oceanographer. He was a professor of geophysics emeritus and held the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California; born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary; died in La Jolla, California) |
| Associated language | eng |
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