Abstract
Irving Langmuir (1938) carried out the first scientific investigation of the phenomenon now called Langmuir circulation. This physical process became known to him by the spatial aggregation of biological material that it caused, which he observed as rows of Sargassum on the ocean surface during a cross-Atlantic voyage by ship. Had the patchiness in the Sargassum distribution been less apparent, it is very likely that the discovery of the physical phenomenon would have taken a much longer time.
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Leibovich, S. (1993). Spatial Aggregation Arising from Convective Processes. In: Levin, S.A., Powell, T.M., Steele, J.W. (eds) Patch Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 96. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50155-5_9
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