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Roger Revelle
(7 Mar 1909 - 15 Jul 1991)
American oceanographer whose research interests integrated study of the sea with geography, geology, geophysics, and meteorology. He expressed an early concern about global warming (1957) due to increasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
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Science Quotes by Roger Revelle (2 quotes)
We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.
— Roger Revelle
Quoted in obituary, Physics Today (Feb 1992) 120.
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.
— Roger Revelle
L.A. Times (21 Jul 1999)
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- 7 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Revelle's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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