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Born in Morges on Lake Geneva, he worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Lausanne.

But his real love was the lake; his investigations of biology, chemistry, water circulation, and sedimentation, and most importantly their interactions, established the foundation of a new discipline. In his chief work, Le Léman , published in three volumes between 1892Events January 1 Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States. January 14 Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Next in line is his younger b and 19041904 is a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events January 7 The distress signal " CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by " SOS. February 7 A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30, he named his activity limnology in analogy with oceanographyOceanography (also called oceanology and marine science ) is the study of the earth's oceans and their interlinked ecosystems and chemical and physical processes. There are five major divisions within the science: biological oceanography (also sometimes c ("limnography" could have been confused with the limnograph , which measures water level in lakes).

He discovered the phenomenon of density current s in lakes, and explained seicheA seiche (pronounced SAYSH or an underwater wave is an underwater, irregular fluctuation or rhythmic rocking of the water level of a lake, first noted in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Observers on the surface may not know a seiche is happening. Seiches are cos, the rhythmic oscillations observed in enclosed waters.

The Institute F.-A. Forel of the University of GenevaThe University of Geneva Universite de Geneve is one of the oldest universities in the world. Located in Geneva, Switzerland, it was founded by John Calvin in 1559. Initially a theological seminary, it also taught law. It remained heavily theological into is named after Forel.