Robert Ballard

United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist · United States · On the map · Born 1942 · age 84

Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology and marine geology.

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2011Nevada MedalAward2003National Humanities MedalAward2002Caird MedalAward1996Hubbard MedalAward1994Kilby International AwardsAward1991Captain Robert Dexter Conrad AwardAward1990William Procter Prize for Scientific AchievementAward1942Born30 June 1942

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Ballard in 1999 with a VHS copy of the film Titanic

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Nevada Medal2011

National Humanities Medal2003

Caird Medal2002

Hubbard Medal1996

Kilby International Awards1994

Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award1991

William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement1990

Livingstone Medal

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He is best known by the general public for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew.

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Born 1942 · age 84