Hans Thomas Rossby (born 1937)[1] is an American oceanographer.
He was born in Boston as a son of a Swedish father and American mother. After mostly growing up in Sweden and taking a physics degree at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1962, he took his doctorate in oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He became a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.[2]
In 1999 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 2003.[1] He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for the "development of deep-ocean instruments and their application in shaping an ocean observing system".[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Utenlandske medlemmer". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "H. Thomas Rossby". University of Rhode Island. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Hans Thomas Rossby". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Dr. H. Thomas Rossby". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
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