Martin W. Johnson | |
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 Portrait of Johnson in the 1930s | |
| Born | Martin Wiggo Johnson September 30, 1893 Chandler, South Dakota |
| Died | November 28, 1984 Snohomish, Washington |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | oceanographer |
Martin Wiggo Johnson (September 30, 1893 – November 28, 1984), was an American oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is known as an author of the landmark reference work The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology (1942, 1970); for explaining the deep scattering layer (DSL) as a result of what is now called the diel vertical migration; and for studies of zooplankton that revealed that the physics of water movement was an important influence on population biology and community diversity.[1]