Walter M. Elsasser
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 33 years ago |
| Date of birth | March 20,1904 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Born | Mannheim |
| Germany | |
| Date of died | October 14,1991 |
| Died | Baltimore |
| Maryland | |
| United States | |
| Known for | Dynamo theory |
| Complex systems biology | |
| Job | Physicist |
| Books | Reflections on a Theory of Organisms |
| The Physical Foundation of Biology: An Analytical Study | |
| Memoirs of a physicist in the atomic age | |
| Atom and Organism: A New Approach to Theoretical Biology | |
| The Chief Abstractions of Biology | |
| Atmospheric Radiation Tables | |
| Awards | National Medal of Science for Physical Science |
| Arthur L. Day Medal | |
| National Medal of Science | |
| Field | Physics; Theoretical biology |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 566843 |
Walter M. Elsasser Life story
Walter Maurice Elsasser was a German-born American physicist, a developer of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth.
