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Date of Birth
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29-November-1931
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Place of Birth
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Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Wallace Broecker, Wallace S. Broecker, Wally Broecker, Prof Wally Broecker
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Profession
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Chemist, Professor, Scientist
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Wallace Smith Broecker is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. 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 has received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize.
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