George Deacon

Sir George Edward Raven Deacon (21 March 1906 - 16 November 1984) was a British oceanographer and chemist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1944 and knighted in 1977.

He was Director of the UK National Institute of Oceanography from 1949.

External links

* [http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!3146~!0&profile=newcustom-icos Catalogue of personal papers]
* [http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/GDD/george.html Biography at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton]

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DATE OF DEATH=16 November 1984
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