Physicist

Walter Munk

American oceanographer

1917 - 2019

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His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Walter Munk is the 783rd most popular physicist (down from 775th in 2024), the 1,054th most popular biography from Austria (down from 1,045th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Walter Munk shares a October 19 birthday with Marsilio Ficino, Michael Gambon, and Gunnar Nordahl.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Walter Munk ranks 783 out of 851. Before him are Julian Barbour, Miguel Alcubierre, Emil Wolf, Egon Orowan, Harvey Fletcher, and Frank Press. After him are Anatoly Logunov, Henrik Svensmark, James M. Bardeen, Rolf Landauer, Robert Detweiler, and Thibault Damour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Walter Munk ranks 321. Before him are Jovdat Hajiyev, Jack Lynch, George Newberry, Qaysin Quli, Manuel Alexandre, and Pamela Brown. After him are Vera Zorina, David Hampshire, Ellis Clarke, Jerry Wexler, Mikhail Anikushin, and Lou Harrison. Among people deceased in 2019, Walter Munk ranks 510. Before him are Marie Senghor Basse, Jeon Mi-seon, D. A. Pennebaker, Carlo Croccolo, Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, and Oleg Golovanov. After him are George Fernandes, Nicolae Pescaru, Nadja Regin, Robert Ouko, José Rodrigues Neto, and Neil Innes.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Walter Munk ranks 1,054 out of 1,424. Before him are József Moravetz (1911), István Klimek (1913), Andreas Maislinger (1955), Andreas Goldberger (1972), Alfred Schmalzer (1912), and Oscar Baumann (1864). After him are DJ Ötzi (1971), Gerhard Roth (1942), Gertrude Liebhart (1928), Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (1970), Werner Kogler (1961), and Siegfried Powolny (1915).

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Among Physicists In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Walter Munk ranks 21. Before him are Marietta Blau (1894), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795), Julius Wess (1934), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), and Peter Zoller (1952).

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