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Pomponius Mela
formalizes the climatic zone system. -
Garbriel Fahrenheit
Creates reliable scale for measuring temperature with mercury-type thermometer -
Anders Celsius
a swedish astronomer, proposed the centigrade scale for thermometers -
Joseph Lockyer
Joseph Lockyer starts the scientific journal Nature. -
Bjerknes, Vilhelm
He was a assistant to Heinrich Hertz, work on electromagnectic resonance. This work eventually led to the development of radio.1917, Bjerknes founded the Geophysical Institute of Bergen.. He established a large network of observing stations. -
Robert Watson
is generally considered the inventor of radar. -
Priestley, Raymond
was a british geologist and Antarctic explorer. established the Department of Meteorology at the University of Melbourne 1939.
He served as head of the Toyal Geographic Society from 1961 to 1963 -
du Toit, Alexander Logie
was a south african geologist who was one of the strongest early supporters of wegener's theory of continental drift. Du Toit's arguments were mostly geological, but he also was intrigued by the observations -
R.C Miller and E.J Fawbush
first correct tornado predction by R.C. Miller and E.J. Fawbush -
Terada, Torahiko
he was a japenese metorologist and university professor. he established the Earth Sciences Department at tokyou University, where he taught meteorology. -
Paul Crutzen
Paul Crutzen is a Dutch physicist who conducted upper atmospheric research in the 1960s. This led to a deep interest in the photochemistry of atmospheric ozone, and he became a world expert on the chemical interactions of trace gases and trace components in the atmosphere -
Edward Lorenz
Edward Lorenz was an American meteorologist and pioneer of chaos theory. He worked with some of the earliest numerical weather prediction (NWP) models -
Saffir Simpson
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale created, used to describe hurricane strength on a category range of 1 to 5 -
Ted Fujita
intorduces the Fujita scale for rating tornadoes. -
Andre Berger
Andre Berger is a distinguished Belgian climatologist. Since 1989 he has been a professor of meteorology and climatology at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He is the co-founder of the International Polar Foundation. -
Mario Molina
Mario Molina is a Mexican-born physicist who shared with F. Sherwood Rowland and Paul J. Crutzen in 1995 the Nobel Prize in physics for their research on ozone. -
Nicholas Shackleton
Nicholas Shackleton was a British geologist and climatologist who specialized in the study of the climates of past ages. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of this scientific specialty, known as paleoclimatology -
John Theon
John Theon is an American satellite meteorologist. He was project scientist for the Nimbus-5 and Nimbus-6 meteorological satellites, and also for the TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) satellite. He was Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program at NASA from 1982 to 1992. -
Bonnel, Ferdinand
he founded St. Michael's college, which became know for its programs in meteorology and astronomy. -
Helen Young
Helen Young is a British weather broadcaster
