Athelstan Spilhaus

Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus (November 25, 1911 – March 30, 1998) was a

Spilhaus was born in 1911 in

In 1949, he became Dean of the

Spilhaus was the founder and original planner of the Minnesota Experimental City.^[5]

Spilhaus was also chair of the scientific advisory committee of the

He was the prime mover behind The Experimental City project, intended to build a futuristic, pollution-free city. The project never came to fruition despite his 30 years of advocacy for it. It is the subject of a 2017 film documentary, The Experimental City.[11]

In an interview for the

Spilhaus World Ocean Map Projection

In 1942 Spilhaus first wrote about the possibility of a map projection of the world's oceans that would intersect the oceans as little as possible, however it wasn't until 1979 that what is now known as the "Spilhaus Projection" was first published. It uses locations near Hankou in China and Córdoba in Argentina as poles with a cut joining them across the Bering Strait. ^[13]

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