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George James Symons

British meteorologist
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Born:
Aug. 6, 1838, London
Died:
March 10, 1900, London (aged 61)

George James Symons (born Aug. 6, 1838, London—died March 10, 1900, London) was a British meteorologist who strove to provide reliable observational data by imposing standards of accuracy and uniformity on meteorological measurements and by substantially increasing the number of reporting stations. Symons was elected a member of the British Meteorological Society (later the Royal Meteorological Society) in 1856, when he was only 18 years old. He concentrated his attention on the collection of rainfall statistics and, in 1860, issued the first of his annual rainfall reports. In that year results from 168 stations were compiled in the report, but ...(100 of 161 words)

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