Robert Ballard
Military Person
1942 –
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Who is Robert Ballard?
Robert Duane Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. Ballard leads ocean exploration on E/V Nautilus.
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- Born
- Jun 30, 1942
Wichita - Also known as
- Dr Robert Ballard
- Robert Duane Ballard
- Bob Ballard
- Dr. Robert Duane Ballard
- Dr. Robert R. Ballard
- Dr. Robert D. Ballard
- Robert D. Ballard
- Dr. Robert B. Ballard
- Parents
- Spouses
- Barbra Ballard
(1991 - )
- Barbra Ballard
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Geology
( - 1965) - Chemistry
- Master of Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Geophysics
( - 1966) - PhD, University of Rhode Island
Geophysics
( - 1974) - Marine geology
- PhD, University of Southern California
Marine geology
( - 1967)
- Bachelor of Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Employment
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Professor, University of Rhode Island
- Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration
- Lived in
- Pacific Beach
- Lyme
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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