Alexander Buchan: Quick Facts


Facts

Born April 11, 1829 • Scotland
Died May 13, 1907 (aged 78) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Subjects Of Study Buchan spell • weather map

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Forecasting D-Day
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
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Vilhelm Bjerknes
Norwegian meteorologist
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Jacob Bjerknes
Norwegian-American meteorologist
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Tor Harold Percival Bergeron
Scandinavian meteorologist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
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Hugh Robert Mill
British geographer and meteorologist
John Frederic Daniell, undated engraving
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
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Jean André Deluc
Swiss-British geologist and meteorologist
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William Henry Dines
British meteorologist
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George James Symons
British meteorologist
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Sir Napier Shaw
British 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
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
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Wladimir Köppen
German climatologist
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Tetsuya Fujita
Japanese-American meteorologist
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Milutin Milankovitch
Serbian mathematician and geophysicist
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Manabe Syukuro
American meteorologist
Portrait of Alfred Lothar Wegener wearing a suit and tie, looking directly at the camera.
Alfred Wegener
German meteorologist and geophysicist
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer and astrophysicist