SOCIETY SOUNDINGS | Why We Are Oceanographers

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Author

Henry Stommel | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

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First Paragraph

Working backward in time, give or take a few years, the overlapping lifetimes of three scientist—Einstein, Darwin and Maskelyne—take us back to an age when Isaac Newton still breathed. That is a measure of the speed at which scientific knowledge has grown.

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Full Article

1.16 MB pdf

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Citation

Stommel, H. 1989. Why we are oceanographers. Oceanography 2(2):48–54, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1989.16.

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