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Stephen Thorpe

oceanographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7610683 ↗
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Stephen Austen Thorpe FRS is a British oceanographer, Professor of Oceanography, University of Southampton, 1986–2003, now emeritus. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991 and was President of the Royal Meteorological Society.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2003, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Stephen, Thorpe and oceanographer can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as oceanographer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7610683. VIAF identifies the subject as 4585147553275653800009. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2003 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stephen Thorpe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.