File:Walter Munk 1956.jpg

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Description	Portrait of Professor Walter H. Munk in 1956.
Author or copyright owner	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: SIO Photographic Laboratory Photographs, 1949-2000 Immediate source: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb14003418
Date of publication	N/A
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Walter Munk
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Photo is of Walter Munk, now deceased, in 1956 at the height of his illustrious career. No comparable free portrait images can be found. Inquiry to family for free photograph was not fruitful.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	File will be used as the primary image of Munk at the top of his Wikipedia biography. Low resolution version, 250x311, limits use.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	Owner of photo is UC Regents/UC San Diego, a major educational institution. They explicitly release the photo for fair use. Low resolution version of the image (250X311) is used.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: February 8, 2019 No
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Walter Munk//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Munk_1956.jpgtrue

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:57, 14 April 2020		250 × 311 (46 KB)	Bdushaw (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Walter Munk

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Date and time of data generation	00:00, 14 April 2020
Horizontal resolution	1,350 dpi
Vertical resolution	1,350 dpi
Software used	GIMP 2.10.8
File change date and time	11:28, 14 April 2020
IIM version	2