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Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973

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Personal name headingEckart, Carl, 1902-1973
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1902-05-04
Death date1973-10-23
Place of birthSaint Louis (Mo.)
Place of deathLa Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)
AffiliationUniversity of Chicago
University of California (1868-1952). Division of War Research
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Profession or occupationPhysicists Geophysicists Oceanographers College teachers College administrators
Found innuc86-114131: His Our modern idol, mathematical science, 1984 (hdg. on CU-S rept.: Eckart, Carl Henry, 1902- ; usage: Carl Eckart)
NUCMC data from Library of Congress Manuscript Division for His Papers, 1921-1973 (Carl Eckart; physicist, oceanographer, and educator; d. 1973)
WWWA: v. 6 1974-1976 (Eckart, Carl; b. St. Louis May 4, 1902; d. Oct. 23, 1973)
Wikipedia, March 25, 2019 (Carl Eckart; Carl Henry Eckart (May 4, 1902 in St. Louis, Missouri - October 23, 1973 in La Jolla, California) was an American physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator; professor of physics at the University of Chicago, 1928-1946; UC Division of War Research from 1942-1946; professor of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1946 until his retirement in 1971; director of Scripps from 1948-1950)
Associated languageeng