Lloyd Viel Berkner: Quick Facts


Facts

Born February 1, 1905 • Milwaukee • Wisconsin
Died June 4, 1967 (aged 62) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Founder International Geophysical Year
Subjects Of Study atmosphere • ionosphere
Role In International Geophysical Year

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Jack Kilby
American engineer
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James A. Van Allen
American physicist
Shockley
William B. Shockley
American physicist
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Merle Antony Tuve
American geophysicist
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William Jackson Humphreys
American physicist
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
John Tyndall.
John Tyndall
Irish physicist
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Jacques Piccard
Swiss oceanic engineer
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Otto von Guericke
Prussian physicist, engineer, and philosopher
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Osborne Reynolds
British engineer and physicist
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Oliver Heaviside
British physicist
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William John Macquorn Rankine
Scottish engineer
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
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George Johnstone Stoney
Irish physicist
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Heinrich Kayser
German physicist
Nils Gustaf Dalén.
Nils Dalén
Swedish physicist