Wallace Broecker
1931
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2019
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country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Columbia University, Wheaton College
occupation: geologist, oceanographer, biogeochemist, university teacher, environmentalist, geophysicist
award received: Arthur L. Day Medal, Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Balzan Prize, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Alexander Agassiz Medal, National Medal of Science, Blue Planet Prize, V. M. Goldschmidt Award, Vetlesen Prize, A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences, Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship, H. C. Urey Award, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Crafoord Prize in Geosciences, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Roger Revelle Medal, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Wollaston Medal, Maurice Ewing Medal, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Nevada Medal
Wallace "Wally" Smith Broecker (November 29, 1931 – February 18, 2019) was an American geochemist. He was the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University. He developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography. Broecker popularized the term "global warming". He received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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