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Wallace Smith Broecker

1931 - 2019

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Wallace "Wally" Smith Broecker (November 29, 1931 – February 18, 2019) was an American geochemist. He was the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University. 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 popularized the term "global warming". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wallace Smith Broecker is the 563rd most popular chemist (down from 534th in 2019), the 10,035th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,666th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Chemist.

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Among chemists, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 563 out of 602. Before him are Edith M. Flanigen, Carl Jacob Löwig, Edward Goodrich Acheson, Hans von Pechmann, Christian Ehrenfried Weigel, and Anna J. Harrison. After him are Barbara Askins, Leslie Orgel, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Achim Müller, F. Albert Cotton, and Mildred Cohn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 529. Before him are Tadeusz Rut, Thomas Shardelow, Janice Rule, Jaime Salazar, Jackie McLean, and Felix Sobolev. After him are Ernest Schultz, Janusz Majewski, Carlo Galli, Igor Maslennikov, Géza Gulyás, and Jacques Miller. Among people deceased in 2019, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 478. Before him are Valerie Harper, Brigitte Kronauer, Pernell Whitaker, Hal Blaine, Alvin Sargent, and Thanos Mikroutsikos. After him are Elwyn Berlekamp, W. S. Merwin, Sheila Dikshit, Clive Swift, Bruno Nicolè, and Aleksey Buldakov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 10,037 out of 20,380. Before him are George Beauchamp (1899), Edward William Nelson (1855), Cam Gigandet (1982), Jeanne Shaheen (1947), Chris Finch (1969), and Ray Mercer (1961). After him are Chris Connor (1927), Tyson Gay (1982), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Garry Winogrand (1928), Barbara Askins (1939), and Sharon Stouder (1948).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 102. Before him are Bruce Alberts (1938), Emma P. Carr (1880), Florence B. Seibert (1897), Edith M. Flanigen (1929), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), and Anna J. Harrison (1912). After him are Barbara Askins (1939), F. Albert Cotton (1930), Mildred Cohn (1913), Ira Remsen (1846), Benjamin Silliman (1779), and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898).

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