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John Francis Ropek was born in Dunmore, Pennsylvania.
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Education
New York University.
Career
Ropek was an alumnus of Dunmore High School. He earned degrees in chemistry and meteorology from New York University. He became a civilian researcher after the war.
In 1957 he was assigned to the United States Ship Nautilus.
As one of 116 men aboard this nuclear submarine, Ropek was involved in pioneering oceanographic studies under the polar ice cap of the North Pole, resulting in the report "Characteristics of Polar Ice Observed During the 1957 Arctic Cruise of the United States Ship Nautilus" (Defense Technical Information Center 1958). As a scientist he published many technical papers, such as United States Navy Hydrographic Office synoptic and prognostic wave charts (United States Navy Hydrographic Office 1955), and "An Application of Naval Oceanographic Development to Inland Waters" (Defense Technical Information Center 1967).
Later, Ropek was deputy director of the prediction division of the Naval Oceanographic Office. Late in life he lived in Lusby, Maryland.
John F. Ropek died November 9, 2009, at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Maryland.
He was 92. He is buried in Saint Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Dickson City, Pennsylvania.
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November 9, 2009 (aged 92)