Scripps Oceanographer Walter Munk Awarded First-Ever International Prince Albert I Medal.

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Byline: University of California, San Diego

LA JOLLA, Calif., Aug. 27 (AScribe News) -- Walter Munk, considered by many to be one of the world's greatest living oceanographers, will be awarded the inaugural Prince Albert I Medal from the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO). Munk, who has been affiliated with Scripps Institution of Oceanography since 1940, is a professor of geophysics and holds a Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair at the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution. He is the first recipient of this prestigious prize.

Munk is being honored "for a half century of superb science and discoveries in physical oceanography." He will receive the award at the IAPSO/IABO Joint Assembly in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in October 2001.

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