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Born January 1, 1917 • San Francisco • California
Died June 16, 1981 (aged 64) • Boston • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study atmospheric modeling • numerical weather prediction
Lewis Fry Richardson
British physicist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Tetsuya Fujita
Japanese-American meteorologist
Manabe Syukuro
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Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
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Henry Melson Stommel
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William Morris Davis
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Edward Lorenz
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Jacob Bjerknes
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Vincent Joseph Schaefer
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Guyot, Arnold Henry
Arnold Henry Guyot
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George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
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Cleveland Abbe
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Espy, James Pollard
James Pollard Espy
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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
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John Dalton
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