Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-
Walter Heinrich Munk papers (Collection 87-35), 1944-2002.
Includes Munk's conferences and symposiums, travel itineraries, correspondence, and scientific papers and speeches. The collection includes significant documentation of JASON Conferences, the Heard Island Experiment, expeditions to the Arctic (1949) and Bikini Island (Operation Crossroads, 1946), and correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard, Cecil H. Green, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup. It also includes chronological correspondence files (1979-1992), office calendars (1986- 1990), subject files, and committee files.
American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (1947). Munk served as assistant and associate professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1947 to 1954 when he became professor of geophysics in the University of California Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Munk founded the Institute and served as its director from 1959 to 1984. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosphical Society, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society. He has served on several panels of the President's Scientific Advisory Council.
Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-
Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Photographs.
JASON Defense Advisory Group
Marine sciences.
Ocean -- Research.
Ocean -- Research -- Data bases.
Ocean waves -- Photographs.
Oceanographers -- Travel -- China.
Oceanography -- Congresses.
Oceanography -- Research.
Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions.
Tides -- Photographs.
Tsunamis -- Photographs.
Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands).
Computer files. aat
Graphs. aat aat
Itineraries. aat
Geophysicists. lcsh
Oceanographers. lcsh
Physicists. lcsh
Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946
Computer programs. lcsh
Sound -- Photographs.
Bullard, Edward Crisp, Sir, 1907-1980.
Green, Cecil Howard, 1900-2003-
Monin, A. S. (Andrei Sergeevich), 1921-
Press, Frank, 1924-
Revelle, Roger, 1909-1991-
Stommel, Henry M., 1920-1992.
Sverdrup, H. U. (Harald Ulrik), 1888-1957.
American Miscellaneous Society.
Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953)
AIP-ICOS
University of California, San Diego. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Mandeville Special Collections Library. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA