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HUMSS A Science Museum

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Louis, Agassiz
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Alexander Brongniart
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Christian Leopold von Buch

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Nevin M. Fenneman
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David Thompson
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Glaisher , James

Birth: April 7 , 1809

Died: February 7 , 1903
Contribution
-was an English meteorologist,
aeronaut and astronomer.
Impact today: to know fast
what happen to the space if
there come a meteor.
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Bjerknes , Vilhelm Frimannkoren

Birth: March , 14 1862, oslo

norway
Died: April 9 ,1951 oslo norway
Contribution
was a Norwegian physicist and
meteorologist who did much to
found the modern practice of
weather forecasting.
Impact today: we know the
information what happen to our
weather today
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Abbe , Cleveland

Birth: December 3 ,1838

Died: October 28 , 1916
Contribution
-was an American meteorologist and
advocate of time zones. While director of
the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati,
Ohio, he developed a system of
telegraphic weather reports, daily
weather maps, and weather forecasts
Impact today: because in this contribution
we know the time today.
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Ballard Robert Duane

Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is a

retired 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. He leads ocean exploration on
E/V Nautilus.
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Died, 25 June 1997 (aged 87)Paris, France
Cousteau described his underwater world Causteau Jacquaes Yves
research in a series of books, perhaps the most
successful being his first book, The Silent
World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and
Adventure, published in 1953. Cousteau also
directed films, most notably the documentary
adaptation of the book, The Silent World,
which won a Palme d'or at the 1956 Cannes
Film Festival. He remained the only person to
win a Palme d'Or for a documentary film, until
Michael Moore won the award in 2004 for
Fahrenheit
The impact of their work today is about
transportation on ocean the map of ocean the
battle ship and many more about the history
of today and underwater breathing apparatus
like scuba it very useful because of that we can
breathe on the undewate and we can see what
on underwater world
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William Maurice Ewing

• William Maurice Ewing

• Birthday: May 12, 1906
• Died: May 4 , 1974
• CONTRIBUTION
• -Ewing's contributions to oceanography are discussed in
Rober C. Gowen, Fronties of the Sea: The Story of
Oceanographic Explaration (1963); and Warren E. Yasso,
Oceanography: A study of inner Space, (1965). Aeditional
material on Ewing is in David Robert Bates, ed., The
Planet Earth (1957; rev. ed. 1964); William S. von Arx, An
introduction to Physical Oceanography (1962); and
Günter Dietrich, General Oceanography: An introduction
(trans. 1963)
• Further information on Ewing can be found in Frederic L.
Holmos, ed., Dictionary of scientific biography, vol. 17
(1970; rev. ed. 1990), and Roy Porter, ed ., The
biopraphical Dictionary of Scientific (1994).