Wallace Smith Broecker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wallace Smith Broecker

American scientist

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1931

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 18-Feb-2019

Profession: geologist, university teacher, oceanographer, environmentalist, biogeochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.