Walter Munk

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Gender	Male
Death	5 years ago
Date of birth	October 19,1917
Zodiac sign	Libra
Born	Vienna
	Austria
Date of died	February 8,2019
Spouse	Mary Coakley
	Judith Munk
Died	La Jolla
	California
	United States
Doctor student	Charles Shipley Cox, June Pattullo
Education	University of California, Los Angeles
Parents	Rega Brunner
Date of Reg.	2019-02-12 05:35:18
Date of Upd.	2023-11-13 02:41:20
ID	406670

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
National Medal of Science for Physical Science
Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
Vetlesen Prize
Alexander Agassiz Medal
Arthur L. Day Medal
Maurice Ewing Medal
Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
Prince Albert I Medal
Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award
Crafoord Prize in Geosciences
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
William Bowie Medal

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Walter Munk Life story

Walter Heinrich Munk was an American physical oceanographer. One of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data, Munk is noted for creating fruitful areas of research that continue to be explored by other scientists.