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Cesare Emiliani (8 December 1922, Bologna, Italy - 20 July 1995, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA) is considered one of the greatest geologists and micropaleontologists of the 20th century and the founder of paleoceanography. He established that the ice ages of the last half million years or so are a cyclic phenomena, which gave strong support to the hypothesis of Milankovitch and revolutionized ideas about the history of the oceans and of the glaciations. He was also the proponent of Project "LOCO" (for Long Cores) to the U.S. ...

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Comments made by Barbara H. Lidz of the USGS, a colleague and former disciple of Cesare Emiliani. "Cesare inspired and instilled a sense of excitement for the potential and many multidisciplinary ramifications, far removed from isotopic studies and biostratigraphic dating, that planktic foraminifera can hold for deciphering the geologic record. ... Stimulated by the curious, mysterious, and unknown, and fluent in many languages, Cesare commanded an incredible amount of knowledge on any subject - mathematics, th ...

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Cesare Emiliani was born on December 8, 1922 in Bologna, Italy. His parents were Luigi and Maria (Manfredidi) Emiliani. Cesare Emiliani - Academic Life. Cesare Emiliani studied geology at the University of Bologna in post-war Italy and earned his first doctorate in Geology (micropaleontology) also at Bologna in 1945. After graduation he worked as a micropaleontologist with the Societa Idrocarburi Nationali in Florence from 1946–48. In 1948 he was offered and accepted the Rollin D. Salisbury Fellowship in ...

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