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Born October 10, 1817 • Netherlands
Died February 3, 1890 (aged 72) • Utrecht • Netherlands • (Anniversary tomorrow)
Subjects Of Study Buys Ballot’s Law
William Ferrel
American meteorologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Wladimir Köppen
German climatologist
Tetsuya Fujita
Japanese-American meteorologist
Milutin Milankovitch
Serbian mathematician and geophysicist
Manabe Syukuro
American meteorologist
Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred Wegener
German meteorologist and geophysicist
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Andrija Mohorovičić
Croatian geophysicist
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Norwegian meteorologist
Hugh Robert Mill
British geographer and meteorologist
Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
American meteorologist
Henry Melson Stommel
American meteorologist and oceanographer
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Jean André Deluc
Swiss-British geologist and meteorologist
Lewis Fry Richardson
British physicist

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