Cesare Emiliani

CESARE EMILIANI was an Italian-American geologist, micropaleontologist, and founder of paleoceanography. His books include Planet Earth, The Scientific Companion and Dictionary of Physical Sciences.

Emiliani received the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1989 and the Vega Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 1983. He earned his doctorate from the University of Bologna in 1945 and a PhD in geology from the University of Chicago in 1950, and served as a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Miami.

Emiliani established that ice ages of the last half million years are a cyclic phenomenon and developed the timescale of marine isotope stages still in use today. He died in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Cesare Emiliani’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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