The University of California, San Diego, reported his death on its website. His home, named Seiche, is near the university campus, where he spent his career at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography after joining its faculty in 1947. “We thought he would live forever,” his wife, Mary Munk, told The San Diego Union-Tribune. She said the cause of death was pneumonia. Dr. Munk, a scientist-explorer who would expound on his discoveries with exuberance, was sometimes called the “Einstein of the oceans” for his pioneering work in the study of waves, ocean circulation, tides and irregularities in the Earth’s rotation.

Source: New York Times February 09, 2019 22:30 UTC