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1992, Oceanography 5(3):154–155, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1992.05

REVIEW & COMMENT | The Oceans 50th Anniversary

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D. James Baker | Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Washington, DC, USA

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First Paragraph

Earlier this year, Carl Wunsch noted that it was exactly fifty years since The Oceans, subtitled "Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology" had been published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., and he proposed to me that Oceanography commission a review of that famous text. I thought that this was a superb idea, and found several colleagues who were enthusiastically ready to look at the book that has served so many oceanographers.

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Full Article

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Citation

Baker, D.J. 1992. The Oceans 50th anniversary. Oceanography 5(3):154–155, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1992.05.

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