H. Thomas Rossby

Hans Thomas Rossby is an American oceanographer.
He was born in Boston as a son of a Swedish father and American mother. After mostly growing up in Sweden and taking a physics degree at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1962, he took his doctorate in oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He became a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.
In 1999 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 2003. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for the "development of deep-ocean instruments and their application in shaping an ocean observing system".