Professor
Walter Heinrich Munk
(
–
)
1917
2019
University of California, San Diego
;
La Jolla, CA
Geophysicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences
Elected
1957
Research Professor University of California, San Diego. Research centered on geophysics with emphasis on oceanography. He worked on geophysical effects on the rotation of the Earth. He introduced a new method of tide prediction, and the role played by tidal dissipation in deep ocean mixing. He and Carl Wunsch developed Ocean Acoustic Tomography as a means of monitoring ocean variability on a large scale. In his final research, he interpreted satellite images of the ocean surface.
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