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    Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 – October 28, 1916) was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones. While director of the Cincinnati Observatory...
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    The Cleveland Abbe House, also known as the Timothy Caldwell House and Monroe-Adams-Abbe House, is a historic house at 2017 "I" Street NW in Washington...
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    Cleveland Abbe Jr. (March 25, 1872 – April 19, 1934) was an American geographer. He was born in Washington, D.C., on March 25, 1872; son of Cleveland...
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    completed by Abbe shortly before his death. Abbe was the brother of Cleveland Abbe, and the uncle of Cleveland Abbe Jr. and Truman Abbe. Leonard, John...
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    railroads. Chief meteorologist at the United States Weather Bureau Cleveland Abbe divided the United States into four standard time zones for consistency...
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  • include: Surname: Caroline Abbé (born 1988), Swiss footballer Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916), American meteorologist Cleveland Abbe Jr. (1872–1934), American...
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    pʁevo dɛɡzil]; 1 April 1697 – 25 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. He was born at Hesdin...
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    Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute on February 8, 1879. Cleveland Abbe advocated standard time to better coordinate international weather observations...
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    this was only a partial solution to the problem. Weather service chief Cleveland Abbe introduced four standard time zones for his weather stations, an idea...
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  • Cleveland is a masculine given name borne by: Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916), American meteorologist and advocate of time zones Cleveland Abbott (1894–1955)...
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    American Metrological Society produced a "Report on Standard Time" by Cleveland Abbe, chief of the United States Weather Service proposing essentially the...
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    Truman Abbe (November 1, 1873 – May 2, 1955) was an American surgeon, son of Cleveland Abbe and brother of Cleveland Abbe, Jr. He was born in Washington...
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  • Cleveland Abbe House...
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    Magellanic Cloud and 244 objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud. In 1867 Cleveland Abbe suggested that they were separate satellites of the Milky Way. Distances...
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  • Cleveland Abbe Aristotle David Bates Francis Beaufort Tor Bergeron Jacob Bjerknes Vilhelm Bjerknes Howard B. Bluestein Bert Bolin Léon Teisserenc de Bort...
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    recipient of Gold Medals from both the U.S. and from France, and of the Cleveland Abbe Award from the AMS. Simpson turned 100 in 2012. Simpson, whose wife...
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    The 33 original founders of the National Geographic Society in 1888: Cleveland Abbe Frank Baker Marcus Baker John Russell Bartlett Charles J. Bell Rogers...
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    of the American Geographical Society, for Cleveland Abbe Jr., (1872-1934), an American geographer. Abbe received a Ph.D. in 1898 from Johns Hopkins...
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    early as 1844, when the electrical telegraph was introduced. In 1869, Cleveland Abbe began developing probabilistic forecasts using daily weather data sent...
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    American Civil War brevet generals Signal Corps in the American Civil War Cleveland Abbe (First chief meteorologist) Myer's signaling system should not be confused...
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    Department. Among others, he corresponded with such prominent scientists as Cleveland Abbe, Alexander Graham Bell, James McKeen Cattell, Gustave Eiffel, Valentine...
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    Sigma Xi and the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He received the AMS Cleveland Abbe Award for "distinguished service through studies on severe storms, microphysical...
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    Dictionary of Hallucinations. Springer. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-4419-1222-0. Cleveland Abbe (October 1896). "Atmospheric Refractions at the Surface of Water". Monthly...
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    Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916), prominent meteorologist John James Abert (1788–1863), chief...
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  • ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 37768609. "Williams, Whiting". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2022-10-24...
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  • October 28 Oswald Boelcke, German World War I fighter ace, (b. 1891) Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838) October 29 – John Sebastian Little...
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    Stephanos Skouloudis, 34th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928) December 3 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916) December 3 – Octavia Hill, British...
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  • Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2014 Cleveland Abbe Award from the American Meteorological Society Scientific career Fields...
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    the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2007. Professor Cleveland Abbe (1904). "1904 Monthly Weather Review" (PDF). National Hurricane Center...
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  • biopharmaceutical entrepreneur, Republican Party presidential candidate Cleveland Abbe – meteorologist C. David Allis – geneticist Richard Allison – Surgeon...
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