# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wallace-broecker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:53:12.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wallace-broecker"
name: "Wallace Broecker"
slug: "wallace-broecker"
description: "Wallace \"Wally\" Smith Broecker was an American geochemist. He was 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. He developed the idea of a global \"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 popularized the term \"global warming\". He received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize."
tagline: "American geochronologist and oceanographer (1931–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wally_Broecker%2C_c._2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1931-11-29"
deathDate: "2019-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump