Wyrtki, Klaus
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Name (Latin)
Wyrtki, Klaus
Date of birth
1925-02-07
Date of death
2013-02-05
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Oceanography
Occupation
College teachers
Oceanographers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- TOGA Sea Level Center, 1989:title page (Klaus Wyrtki, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, and Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research)
- Klaus Wyrtki (February 7, 1925 - February 5, 2013) was an American physical oceanographer. Born in Tarnowitz, Upper Silesia, Poland, in 1925, from 1945-1948 Wyrtki attended the University of Marburg in Germany, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in 1950. He was a professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1964, when he became a member of the faculty of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii Manoa. From 1993 he was an emeritus professor. Wyrtki died on February 5, 2013, in Honolulu, Hawaii ( (Wikipedia, viewed February 4, 2019) )
- His The horizontal and vertical field of motion in the Peru Current, 1963.