Carl Wunsch
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Career
Wunsch received his Ph.D. in Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He began teaching there in 1967, achieving tenure in 1970, and was named Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography in 1976.
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Climate change
Wunsch was one of the scientists interviewed in the controversial documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, but he complained that his views were grossly distorted by context.
Selected honors
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1978
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1979
- Fulbright Scholar, 1981-1982
- Maurice Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union and U.S. Navy, 1990
- Henry Stommel Research Award, American Meteorological Society, 2000
- Foreign Member, Royal Society of London, 2002
- Member of the American Philosophical Society, 2003
- William Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2006
- Prince Albert I Medal (IAPSO), 2021 (IAPSO list of medal winners)
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