Martin W. Johnson

Martin W. Johnson
Portrait of Johnson in the 1930s
Born
Martin Wiggo Johnson

(1893-09-30)September 30, 1893
Chandler, South Dakota
DiedNovember 28, 1984(1984-11-28) (aged 91)
Snohomish, Washington
Occupationoceanographer

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.

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