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Walter Munk

1917 - 2019

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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

Among physicists, Walter Munk ranks 729 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Walter Munk ranks 287Before 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 453Before 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.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Walter Munk ranks 934 out of 1,237Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Walter Munk ranks 19Before him are Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Berta Karlik (1904), Julius Wess (1934), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), and Peter Zoller (1952).