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Ideas And More. Great Britain's Nicholas Shackleton started out studying physics, switched to measuring minuscule isotopic differences in microscopic bits of ocean mud, and ended up establishing the metronomic qualities of climate change. His death on 24 January, at age 68, leaves a hole in the field of paleoceanography that he pioneered with the understanding that ice ages fluctuate with the rhythmic variations in Earth's orbit. "He was full of ideas, but he followed up with measurements," says marine geochemist Wallace Broecker of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York. "The only competition for his work was the clarinet." Shackleton, who retired from Cambridge University in 2004, amassed a world-class if not unique collection of historical clarinets, published scholarly papers on the instrument, and played it himself. "In a sense," says Broecker, "he was just as much an explorer" as his distant relative, Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton.CREDIT: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

Published 10 February 2006 in Science, 311(5762): 773d.
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