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Duane D. Thiessen

Duane D. Thiessen (born March 11, 1951 in Goessel, Kansas) is a Lieutenant General in the United States Marine Corps, and is currently commanding the United States Marine Corps Forces Pacific, having assumed command on September 2, 2010.


Voronoi diagram

Voronoi diagrams that are used in geophysics and meteorology to analyse spatially distributed data (such as rainfall measurements) are called Thiessen polygons after American meteorologist Alfred H. Thiessen.


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