Rittner D. A to Z of Scientists in Weather and Climate
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NOTABLE SCIENTISTS
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A TO Z OF SCIENTISTS IN WEATHER AND CLIMATE
Notable Scientists
Copyright © 2003 by Don Rittner
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Rittner, Don.
A to Z of scientists in weather and climate / Don Rittner
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p. cm.—(Notable scientists)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8160-4797-9 (hardcover)
1. Meteorologists—Biography—Dictionaries. 2. Climatologists—Biography—
Dictionaries. I. Title. II. Series.
QC858.A2 R57 2003
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To
John F. Roach
Peru Central High School
1961–65
A science teacher who made a difference!
C
ONTENTS
List of Entries ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Entries A to Z 1
Entries by Field 203
Entries by Country of Birth 205
Entries by Country of Major Scientific Activity 207
Entries by Year of Birth 209
Chronology 211
Glossary 215
Bibliography 231
Recommended Weather and Climate-Related Websites 239
Index 243
ix
Abbe, Cleveland
Alberti, Leon Battista
Amontons, Guillaume
Ångström, Anders Jonas
Anisimov, Sergey Vasilyevich
Anthes, Richard A.
Archimedes
Aristotle
Arrhenius, Svante August
Atlas, David
Beeckman, Isaac
Bentley, Wilson Alwyn
Bjerknes, Jacob Aall
Bonnevie
Bjerknes, Vilhelm Friman
Koren
Blanchard, Duncan C.
Blodget, Lorin
Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard
Bras, Rafael Luis
Brook, Marx
Buchan, Alexander
Buys Ballot, Christoph
Hendrik Diederik
Cane, Mark Alan
Celsius, Anders
Chapman, Sydney
Charney, Jule Gregory
Cheng, Roger J.
Coriolis, Gaspard-Gustave de
Croll, James
Dalton, John
Daniell, John Frederic
Day, John
Emanuel, Kerry Andrew
Espy, James Pollard
Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel
Fitzroy, Robert
Franklin, Benjamin
Friday, Jr., Elbert Walter (Joe)
Fritts, Harold Clark
Galilei, Galileo
Galton, Sir Francis
Godfrey, John Stuart
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Hadley, George
Hale, Les
Handel, Peter Herwig
Harrison, R. Giles
Henry, Joseph
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph
Holle, Ronald L.
Hooke, Robert
Howard, Luke
Kalnay, Eugenia Enriqueta
Katsaros, Kristina
King, Patrick
Kurihara, Yoshio
Langmuir, Irving
LeMone, Margaret Anne
Leonardo da Vinci
Lilly, Douglas K.
Liou, Kuo-Nan
MacCready, Paul Beattie
Mach, Douglas Michael
Mardiana, Redy
Maury, Matthew Fontaine
Maxwell, James Clerk
McCormick, Michael Patrick
McIntyre, Michael Edgeworth
Milankovitch, Milutin
Minnis, Patrick
Mintz, Yale
Mitseva-Nikolova, Rumyana
Petrova
Neumann, John Louis von
(Johann)
Newton, Sir Isaac
O’Brien, James Joseph Kevin
Philander, S. George H.
Rakov, Vladimir A.
Rasmusson, Eugene Martin
Réaumur, René-Antoine
Ferchault de
Richard, Philippe
Richardson, Lewis Fry
Rossby, Carl-Gustaf Arvid
Salm, Jaan
Schaefer, Vincent Joseph
Sellers, Piers John
Sentman, Davis Daniel
Shaw, Sir William Napier
Simpson, Joanne Gerould
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