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'''Wallace Smith Broecker''' (born November 29, 1931 in [[Chicago]]<ref>[http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/vetlesen/recipients/1987/broecker_bio.html Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - The Earth Institute - Columbia University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803121827/http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/vetlesen/recipients/1987/broecker_bio.html |date=2013-08-03 }}</ref>) is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at [[Columbia University]], a scientist at Columbia's [[Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory]] and a sustainability fellow at [[Arizona State University]].<ref>[https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/wallace-broecker/ Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability - Arizona State University]</ref> He developed the idea of a global [[thermohaline circulation|"conveyor belt"]] linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the [[carbon cycle]] and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography. Broecker has received the [[Crafoord Prize]] and the [[Vetlesen Prize]].

Broecker is a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] and the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and a Fellow of the [[American Geophysical Union]] and [[European Geosciences Union|European Geophysical Union]]. He has received the [[Crafoord Prize]] in [[Geoscience]],<ref>[http://www.crafoordprize.se/prizesawarded.4.2f692b3510dbfce3396800010039.html Crafoord prize in geoscience 2006]</ref> the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1996,<ref>[http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=55 National Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science]</ref> [[Maurice Ewing Medal|Maurice W. Ewing Medal]] of the [[American Geophysical Union]], the [[Alexander Agassiz Medal]] of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], the [[Urey Medal (European Association of Geochemistry)|Urey Medal]] of the [[European Association of Geochemistry]],<ref>[http://www.eag.eu.com/Urey.html European Association of Geochemistry (EAG)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> the [[V. M. Goldschmidt Award]] from the [[Geochemical Society]],<ref>[http://gs.wustl.edu/archives/gold.html Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Award<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> the [[Vetlesen Prize]] from the [[G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation]], the [[Wollaston Medal]] of the [[Geological Society of London]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/null/lang/en/page750.html|title=Wollaston Medal|work=Award Winners since 1831|publisher=[[Geological Society of London]]|accessdate=2009-02-25|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819015708/http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/null/lang/en/page750.html|archivedate=2010-08-19|df=}}</ref> the [[Roger Revelle Medal]] of the [[American Geophysical Union]], the [[Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement]] from the [[University of Southern California]], the [[Blue Planet Prize]] from [[The Asahi Glass Foundation]], the [[The Franklin Institute Awards|2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal]] in Earth and Environmental Science <ref>[http://www.fi.edu/franklinawards/08/laureate_bf_earth-broecker.html Franklin Institute Laureate Award Page]</ref> from The [[Franklin Institute]] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the 2008 [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] in Climate Change.