Researching Wallace Broecker
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The name Wallace means "A Stranger" and is of French origin.
Records of Wallace Broecker on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Wallace Broecker and the Broecker Family Tree
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Some Famous People called Wallace Broecker
Wallace Smith Broecker
Wallace "Wally" Smith Broecker (November 29, 1931 – February 18, 2019) was an American geochemist. He was the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University. He developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography. Broecker popularized the term "global warming". He received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize.
Source: Wallace Smith Broecker, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Broecker
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