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(1931-2019) Author. Wallace Broecker was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Wallace Broecker

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1931

BIRTH

Wallace Smith Broecker was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on November 29, 1931.

1959

OTHER

Dr. Broecker received a bachelor's degree in physics and a Ph.D. in geology from Columbia University and joined the faculty there in 1959.

1971

LITWORK

Chemical Equilibria In The Earth
McGraw-Hill Education
0070079978 / 978-0070079977
Nonfiction written with Virginia M. Oversby.

1974

LITWORK

Chemical Oceanography
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
0155064371 / 978-0155064379
Nonfiction.

1975

LITWORK

Climatic Change: Are We On The Brink Of A Pronounced Global Warming?


Scientific paper.

1982

LITWORK

Tracers in the Sea
Eldigio Press
9993186724 / 978-9993186724
Nonfiction written with Tsung-Hung Peng.

1988

LITWORK

How to Build a Habitable Planet
Eldigio Press
0-9617511-2-6
Nonfiction.

1993

LITWORK

Greenhouse Puzzles
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University

Nonfiction written with Tsung-Hung Peng.

1995

LITWORK

The Glacial World According To Wally
Eldigio Press

Nonfiction.

2008

LITWORK

Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It
Hill and Wang
080904501X / 978-0809045013
Nonfiction written with Robert Kunzig.

2010

LITWORK

The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change
Princeton University Press
0691143544 / 978-0691143545
Nonfiction.

2016

LITWORK

A Geochemist in his Garden of Eden
Eldigio Press

Nonfiction.

2019

DEATH

Wallace Broecker died at a hospital in Manhattan, New York, on February 18, 2019.

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