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Athelstan Spilhaus

South African oceanographer

Died when: 86 years 125 days (1036 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Athelstan Spilhaus

Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus (November 25, 1911 – March 30, 1998) was a South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer.Among other accomplishments, Spilhaus is credited with proposing the establishment of Sea Grant Colleges at a meeting of the American Fisheries Society in 1963 as a parallel to the successful land-grant colleges, which he claimed was "one of the best investments this nation ever made.

The same kind of imagination and foresight should be applied to the exploration of the sea."

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