Georg Wüst, German oceanographer and academic (d. 1977)
Georg Adolf Otto Wüst (born 15 June 1890 in Posen, Germany (now Poznan, Poland); died 8 November 1977 in Erlangen, Germany) was a German oceanographer. His pioneering work on the Atlantic Ocean provided a new view of the motions of water masses between the northern and southern hemispheres and the first evidence of the concentration of water mass spreading in western boundary currents.
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