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Born August 15, 1891 • England
Died June 13, 1977 (aged 85) • Stockholm • Sweden
Subjects Of Study air mass • cloud • front • physics • precipitation
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Norwegian meteorologist
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
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
C.T.R. Wilson, 1927
C.T.R. Wilson
British physicist
Lewis Fry Richardson
British physicist
Alexander Buchan
Alexander Buchan
British meteorologist
Jacob Bjerknes
Norwegian-American meteorologist
Vincent Joseph Schaefer
American chemist and meteorologist
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
American scientist
George Hadley
British physicist and meteorologist
John Aitken
British physicist and meteorologist
Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
Fuglesang, Christer
Christer Fuglesang
Swedish physicist and astronaut
Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Alfvén
Swedish physicist
Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
American meteorologist
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
Swedish physicist
Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn
Swedish physicist

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