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Born February 19, 1898 • Norway
Died December 31, 1974 (aged 76) • London • England
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Vilhelm Bjerknes
Norwegian meteorologist
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Jacob Bjerknes
Norwegian-American meteorologist
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Harold Ulrik Sverdrup
Norwegian oceanographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
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
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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
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Andrija Mohorovičić
Croatian geophysicist
Forecasting D-Day
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
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Hugh Robert Mill
British geographer and meteorologist
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Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
American meteorologist
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Henry Melson Stommel
American meteorologist and oceanographer
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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