Wallace Smith Broecker
Chemist, Award Winner
1931 –
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Who is Wallace Smith Broecker?
Wallace Smith Broecker is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography. Broecker has received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize.
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- Born
- Nov 29, 1931
Chicago - Also known as
- Wallace Broecker
- Wallace S. Broecker
- Wally Broecker
- Prof Wally Broecker
- Spouses
- Grace Carder
( - 2007)
- Grace Carder
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Wheaton College
- Wheaton College
- Employment
- Columbia University
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on July 23, 2013
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