Harry Marmer
Harry Marmer · Science & Medicine
Oceanographer and leading authority on ocean tides and sea level
1885, Proskurov, Russian Empire (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) — 1953, USA
United States
Harry Marmer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Oceanographer and leading authority on ocean tides and sea level
Harry Aaron Marmer was a Russian-born American engineer and oceanographer with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, an internationally recognized authority on ocean tides and sea level. He established tide stations across the Americas and the Pacific and authored standard references on tidal datum planes. Emigrating to the United States as a child, he came from a Jewish family.
Verify and go deeper with these external references.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.
Oceanographer and leading authority on ocean tides and sea level
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
Similar Contributors
Walter Munk
Carl Wunsch
Arnold Arons
Hans Albert Einstein
Heinrich Holland
