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Iselin, Columbus O'Donnell

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Iselin, Columbus O'Donnell (1904-1971)

US oceanographer. He served at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1932-70, and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1959-70 and Harvard 1960-70. He developed the bathythermograph and other deep-sea instruments responsible for saving ships during World War II. He made major contributions to research on ocean salinity and temperature, acoustics, and the oceanography of the Gulf Stream.

He was born in New Rochelle, New York.



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