1917 - 2019
Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data. Munk worked on a wide range of topics, including surface waves, geophysical implications of variations in the Earth's rotation, tides, internal waves, deep-ocean drilling into the sea floor, acoustical measurements of ocean properties, sea level rise, and climate change. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Munk has received more than 192,641 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Munk is the 729th most popular physicist (up from 800th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from Austria (down from 834th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Austrian Physicist.
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Among physicists, Walter Munk ranks 729 out of 717. Before him are Rudolf Haag, Léon Rosenfeld, Sidney Coleman, Narinder Singh Kapany, Ludvig Lorenz, and Ayşe Erzan. After him are Shirley Ann Jackson, John Joly, Marcia Neugebauer, James Hartle, Daniel Kleppner, and Jeffrey Goldstone.
1922 - 2016
HPI: 41.73
Rank: 723
1904 - 1974
HPI: 41.72
Rank: 724
1937 - 2007
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 725
1926 - 2020
HPI: 41.44
Rank: 726
1829 - 1891
HPI: 41.41
Rank: 727
1949 - Present
HPI: 41.40
Rank: 728
1917 - 2019
HPI: 41.26
Rank: 729
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.24
Rank: 730
1857 - 1933
HPI: 41.09
Rank: 731
1932 - Present
HPI: 40.87
Rank: 732
1939 - 2023
HPI: 40.86
Rank: 733
1932 - Present
HPI: 40.65
Rank: 734
1933 - Present
HPI: 40.57
Rank: 735
Among people born in 1917, Walter Munk ranks 287. Before him are Merle Travis, Mikhail Anikushin, Ottorino Volonterio, Lou Harrison, Oswald Karch, and Leonard Chess. After him are Arthur Laurents, Margo, Kamal Ranadive, Robert La Caze, Marcel Hansenne, and Jack Lynch. Among people deceased in 2019, Walter Munk ranks 453. Before him are Jeon Mi-seon, Bogaletch Gebre, Carlos Squeo, Shriram Lagoo, Thomas Shardelow, and Godfrey Gao. After him are Basil Heatley, Rip Taylor, Sándor Sára, Dave Bartholomew, Akitsugu Konno, and Brigitte Kronauer.
1917 - 1983
HPI: 42.27
Rank: 281
1917 - 1997
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 282
1917 - 2003
HPI: 42.00
Rank: 283
1917 - 2003
HPI: 41.90
Rank: 284
1917 - 2009
HPI: 41.82
Rank: 285
1917 - 1969
HPI: 41.58
Rank: 286
1917 - 2019
HPI: 41.26
Rank: 287
1917 - 2011
HPI: 41.16
Rank: 288
1917 - 1985
HPI: 40.95
Rank: 289
1917 - 2001
HPI: 40.80
Rank: 290
1917 - 2015
HPI: 40.70
Rank: 291
1917 - 2002
HPI: 40.62
Rank: 292
1917 - 1999
HPI: 40.19
Rank: 293
1970 - 2019
HPI: 41.57
Rank: 447
1960 - 2019
HPI: 41.55
Rank: 448
1948 - 2019
HPI: 41.53
Rank: 449
1927 - 2019
HPI: 41.50
Rank: 450
1931 - 2019
HPI: 41.49
Rank: 451
1984 - 2019
HPI: 41.41
Rank: 452
1917 - 2019
HPI: 41.26
Rank: 453
1933 - 2019
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 454
1931 - 2019
HPI: 41.20
Rank: 455
1933 - 2019
HPI: 41.12
Rank: 456
1918 - 2019
HPI: 40.92
Rank: 457
1944 - 2019
HPI: 40.85
Rank: 458
1940 - 2019
HPI: 40.81
Rank: 459
Among people born in Austria, Walter Munk ranks 934 out of 1,237. Before him are Michael Konsel (1962), Johanna Dohnal (1939), Christoph Ransmayr (1954), Mathias Lauda (1981), Mady Christians (1892), and Gregor Schlierenzauer (1990). After him are Andreas Felder (1962), DJ Ötzi (1971), Benjamin Raich (1978), Franz Bartl (1915), Ferdinand Kiefler (1913), and Michael Spindelegger (1959).
1962 - Present
HPI: 41.61
Rank: 928
1939 - 2010
HPI: 41.49
Rank: 929
1954 - Present
HPI: 41.47
Rank: 930
1981 - Present
HPI: 41.41
Rank: 931
1892 - 1951
HPI: 41.29
Rank: 932
1990 - Present
HPI: 41.27
Rank: 933
1917 - 2019
HPI: 41.26
Rank: 934
1962 - Present
HPI: 41.24
Rank: 935
1971 - Present
HPI: 41.24
Rank: 936
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 937
1915 - 1941
HPI: 41.13
Rank: 938
1913 - 1945
HPI: 40.99
Rank: 939
1959 - Present
HPI: 40.96
Rank: 940
Among physicists born in Austria, Walter Munk ranks 19. Before him are Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Berta Karlik (1904), Julius Wess (1934), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), and Peter Zoller (1952).
1872 - 1917
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 13
1911 - 2002
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 14
1904 - 1990
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 15
1934 - 2007
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 16
1923 - 1965
HPI: 44.24
Rank: 17
1952 - Present
HPI: 43.49
Rank: 18
1917 - 2019
HPI: 41.26
Rank: 19