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Alfred Richard Osborne ( Houston , 1942 ) is an American physicist , professor, since 1988, at the University of Turin .

Osborne was a researcher at NASA from 1961 to 1974, then worked for Exxon until 1982. In 1980 he published an important article in Science for the discovery of solitons in the Andaman Islands. From 1980 to 1988 he was a researcher pursuant to art. 36 at the CNR (Turin Institute of Cosmogeophysics), while, since 1988, he has been Professor of Physics at the University of Turin , where, from 1996 to 2011, he taught Oceanography . Among his many research works, Osborne has published two important monographs: Nonlinear Ocean Waves and the Inverse Scattering Transform (Academic Press, Boston, 2010) and Rogue Waves and Holes in the Sea (Elsevier, New York, 2012).