Sergei Kitaigorodskii
Sergei Kitaigorodskii · Science & Medicine
Oceanographer known for the theory of ocean surface waves and air-sea interaction
1934, Moscow, Soviet Union — 2014
Soviet Union / Russia · United States
Sergei Kitaigorodskii is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Oceanographer known for the theory of ocean surface waves and air-sea interaction
Kitaigorodskii was an oceanographer who developed the similarity theory of wind-generated ocean surface waves, whose 1961 hypothesis underlies the widely used Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum and modern understanding of air-sea interaction and the ocean mixed layer. He later worked in the United States, notably at Johns Hopkins. He had documented Jewish ancestry through his father, the physicist Alexander Kitaigorodskii.
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Oceanographer known for the theory of ocean surface waves and air-sea interaction
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