Staff writer
"I was a terrible student until I was halfway through college," U.S. oceanographer Walter Munk admits. "I didn't have any connection to science."
Now an authority in his field, Munk was awarded the Kyoto Prize last week for the leading role he has played in Earth science, especially in oceanographic studies, through his half-century career.
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