Athelstan Spilhaus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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South African oceanographer
Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1911
Place of Birth: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Date of Death: 30-Mar-1998
Profession: oceanographer
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About 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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