Alfred C. Redfield
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1890 – 1983
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Who was Alfred C. Redfield?
Alfred Clarence Redfield was an American oceanographer.
He is especially known for having discovered the Redfield ratio, which describes the ratio between nutrients in plankton and ocean water. In 1966, he received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America. His research was used by James Lovelock in the formulation of the Gaia hypothesis, that "Organisms and their environment evolve as a single, self-regulating system."
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- Born
- 1890
Philadelphia - Also known as
- Alfred Redfield
- Died
- 1983
Woods Hole
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on July 23, 2013
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