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Stanley Flattè

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Stanley Flattè · Science & Medicine

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Physicist known for the theory of wave propagation through the ocean and atmosphere

When

1940, Los Angeles, USA — 2007, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Stanley Flattè is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist known for the theory of wave propagation through the ocean and atmosphere

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Stanley Martin Flatté was an American physicist at UC Santa Cruz, originally a particle physicist, who became a leading theorist of wave propagation through random media in the ocean, atmosphere and Earth's crust. His methods reshaped ocean acoustics and underpinned acoustic thermometry of ocean climate. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science

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Physicist known for the theory of wave propagation through the ocean and atmosphere

1940

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science