Anthony Seymour Laughton
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Sir Anthony Seymour Laughton FRS (29 April 1927—27 September 2019) was a British oceanographer.
He was educated at Marlborough College and King's College, Cambridge.[1] He worked for the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (now the National Oceanography Centre) and served as director in 1978. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980 and received a knighthood for services to oceanography in the 1987 Birthday Honours.He was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1989.[2]
References
- ^ "Laughton, Sir Anthony Seymour, (29 April 1927–27 Sept. 2019), oceanographic consultant; Director, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, 1978–88." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 Dec. 2007
- ^ Searle, Roger C. (2020). "Sir Anthony Seymour Laughton. 29 April 1927—27 September 2019". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 69: 291–311. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0021. S2CID 220666400.
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