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Vagn Walfrid Ekman was a Swedish oceanographer. He was born on May 3, 1874 in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was an oceanographer, and he grew up with an interest in the ocean. He attended secondary school in Stockholm, after which he studied at the University of Uppsala.
He majored in physics, but after attending lectures on hydrodynamics in 1897, his interest in that field was peaked.
This bibliography attempts to list all substantial autobiographies, biographies, festschrifts and obituaries of prominent oceanographers.Ekman made several contributions to oceanography while still attending the university. The famous polar expedition by Fridtjof Nansen discovered that ice tended not to follow the direction of the wind, but drifted at a slight angle of 20 to 40 degrees to the right, away from the wind.
Ekman studied the problem and published a report in 1905. Titled On the Influence of the of the Earth's Rotation on Ocean-Currents, it described the balance of friction between the wind, the sea surface, the layers of water, and the force of the Earth's rotation (known as the Coriolis force).
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