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Geophysicist Athelstan F. Spilhaus dies
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AP Online
03-30-1998
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Geophysicist Athelstan F. Spilhaus, first U.S. ambassador to the United Nations scientific organization and inventor of a device for measuring deep ocean temperatures, has died at age 86.
Spilhaus died Sunday night or early Monday at his home in Middleburg, Va., according to his son, A.F. Spilhaus Jr., executive director of the American Geophysical Union.
The elder Spilhaus was a native of Cape Town, South Africa, and a graduate of the University of Cape Town and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Spilhaus developed the idea of using ...
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