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Klaus Wyrtki was a German-American oceanographer and professor at the University of Hawaii. He was born on 7 February 1925 in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the University of Berlin and received his doctorate in physical oceanography in 1954. Wyrtki was a pioneer in the field of physical oceanography, and his research focused on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. He was the first to recognize the importance of the equatorial Pacific Ocean in the global climate system. He also studied the effects of ocean currents on climate, and his work helped to improve the accuracy of climate models. Wyrtki was a professor at the University of Hawaii from 1965 to 1990. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Washington. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Geophysical Union. Wyrtki was married to his wife, Ruth, for over 60 years. He had two children, a son and a daughter. At the time of his death in 2014, Wyrtki was 88 years old. His net worth is unknown.

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2013

Wyrtki died on February 5, 2013, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was survived by his wife, Erika; his son, Oliver; his daughter, Undine; and three grandchildren.

1991

In 1991, Wyrtki was awarded the Sverdrup Gold Medal Award by the American Meteorological Society, for "outstanding contributions to the dynamics of ocean currents, especially the Gulf Stream". In 2003, Wyrtki was awarded the Prince Albert I Medal. In 2004, he was awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the National Academy of Sciences "for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the oceanic general circulation of abyssal and thermocline waters and for providing the intellectual underpinning for our understanding of ENSO (El Niño)". He is also the winner of the Rosenstiel Award of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, the Albert Defant Medal of the German Meteorological Society, and the Maurice Ewing Medal from the American Geophysical Union. In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. A research vessel at the University of Hawaii is named in his honor.

1925

Klaus Wyrtki (February 7, 1925 – February 5, 2013) was an American physical oceanographer.

Born in Tarnowitz, Upper Silesia, Poland, in 1925, from 1945-1948 Wyrtki attended the University of Marburg in Germany, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in 1950. He was a professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1964, when he became a member of the faculty of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii Manoa. From 1993 he was an emeritus professor.