Robert Ballard

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... Wikipedia

• Born:  Robert Duane Ballard, June 30, 1942, Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
• Age:  82 years
• Education:  University of California, Santa Barbara (undergraduate), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (MS), University of Southern California (PhD), University of Rhode Island (PhD)
• Employer:  University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography
• Known for:  Ocean exploration and underwater archaeology, discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic, the battleship Bismarck, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, and John F. Kennedy's PT-109
• Awards:  Kilby International Awards (1994), The Explorer Medal (1995), Hubbard Medal (1996), Caird Medal (2002)
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