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He was Director of the UK [[National Institute of Oceanography]] from 1949. He was awarded CBE in 1964 and knighted in 1977. |
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Revision as of 12:03, 27 November 2010
Sir George Edward Raven Deacon (21 March 1906 - 16 November 1984) was a British oceanographer and chemist.
He was educated at Newarke secondary school, Leicester, the City of Leicester Boys' School (1919–24) and, as a King's scholar at King's College London (1924–7) where he was awarded a first-class honours degree in chemistry in 1926 and a diploma of education in 1927.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1944. His application citation read: "Since 1927 he has taken physical observations from HM Research Ship "Discovery II" and other vessels in all sections of the Antarctic Ocean, and has analysed and studied these observations. In particular he has described the movements, horizontal and vertical, of the water between the Antarctic Continent and the northern limits of the Southern Ocean, defining Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic areas which are proving significant in the study of the distribution of plankton and of free-swimming and bottom-living animals. He has shown that practically all the bottom water of the Antarctic origin in all the oceans is formed in the Weddell Sea." [1]
He was Director of the UK National Institute of Oceanography from 1949. He was awarded CBE in 1964 and knighted in 1977.
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- ^ . Royal Society title = Library and Archive Catalogue http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27deacon%27%29A title = Library and Archive Catalogue. Retrieved 27 november 2010.
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