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William Bowie Medal

American award in geophysics (1939–)

Memorial Pages

34 memorial pages

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Claude Allègre

03/31/1937 – 01/04/2025

87 years

French politician and geochemist

12th arrondissement of Paris

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Eugene Parker

06/10/1927 – 03/15/2022

94 years

American astronomer

Chicago

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Peter S. Eagleson

02/27/1928 – 01/06/2021

92 years

United States

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Frank Press

12/04/1924 – 01/29/2020

95 years

Chapel Hill

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Walter Munk

10/19/1917 – 02/08/2019

101 years

American oceanographer

La Jolla

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Raymond Hide

05/17/1929 – 09/06/2016

87 years

United Kingdom

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Gerald Joseph Wasserburg

03/25/1927 – 06/13/2016

89 years

Florence

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J. Freeman Gilbert

08/09/1931 – 08/15/2014

83 years

United States

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James Dooge

07/30/1922 – 08/20/2010

88 years

Monkstown

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James A. Van Allen

09/07/1914 – 08/09/2006

91 years

American astrophysicist

Iowa City

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Keiiti Aki

03/03/1930 – 05/17/2005

75 years

Saint-Pierre

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Shun'ichi Akimoto

12/20/1925 – 07/14/2004

78 years

Japan

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Herbert Friedman

06/21/1916 – 09/09/2000

84 years

American physicist

Arlington County

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Family Tree

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Hannes Alfvén

05/30/1908 – 04/02/1995

86 years

Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics

Danderyd

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Alfred Edward Ringwood

04/19/1930 – 11/12/1993

63 years

Australia

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Roger Revelle

03/07/1909 – 07/15/1991

82 years

San Diego

Family Tree

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Harold Jeffreys

04/22/1891 – 03/18/1989

97 years

Cambridge

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Helmut Landsberg

02/09/1906 – 12/06/1985

79 years

Geneva

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Jule Gregory Charney

01/01/1917 – 06/16/1981

64 years

Boston

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Edward C. Bullard

09/21/1907 – 04/03/1980

72 years

La Jolla

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George Prior Woollard

12/20/1908 – 04/08/1979

70 years

United States

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Keith Edward Bullen

06/29/1906 – 09/23/1976

70 years

Auckland

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Jacob Bjerknes

11/02/1897 – 07/07/1975

77 years

Los Angeles

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Veikko Heiskanen

07/23/1895 – 10/23/1971

76 years

Helsinki

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