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Georg Wüst, born 15 June 1890, brought descriptive oceanography into the modern era. Through careful analysis of each hard-won observational data point that passed his meticulous quality control procedures, he probed into the secrets of the ocean, contributing to several research areas. He is best known for his Atlantic Ocean studies, where with great insight and skill he combined water mass analysis by means of the temperature-salinity relationship and the core method, with the dynamic approach of geostrophic balance, to reveal the nature of the deep Atlantic’s stratification and circulation. His primary source of information was the magnificent data set obtained during the “Deutsche Atlantische Expedition”, the South Atlantic Meteor Expedition of 1925-1927, in which he guided the oceanography work.