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Ekman, Vagn Walfrid
(b. Stockholm, Sweden, 3 May 1874; d. Gosted Stockaryd, sweden, 9 March 1954)
oceanography.
Ekman belonged to the group of Scandinavian oceanographers who, at the beginning of this century, started a new and very fruitful line in physical oceanography.
He worked with Fridtjof Nansen, Vilhelm Bjerknes, and B. Helland-Hansen and, like them, must be ranked as one of the great oceanographers.
Ekman was the youngest son of Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, a professor who also worked in oceanography.
He went to school in Stockholm and then studied at the University of Uppsala.
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His interest in hydrophynamics and oceanography came through his contact with Bjerknes, who introduced him to the theoretical problem of the “wind sprial,” which became the subject of his thesis. The original idea of the spiral came from Nansen, who observed a systematic drift of the ice to the right of the wind direction during his famous Frame expedition.
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