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    Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes ForMemRS (/ˈbjɜːrknɪs/ BYURK-niss, Norwegian: [ˈbjæ̂rkneːs]; 14 March 1862 – 9 April 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and...
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    physicist Carl Anton Bjerknes. His maternal grandfather was Norwegian politician Jacob Aall Bonnevie, after whom he was named. Bjerknes was part of a group...
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  • The Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal is an award presented by the European Geosciences Union (and its predecessor, the European Geophysical Society) that recognizes...
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  • Bjerknes may refer to: Carl Anton Bjerknes (1825-1903), Norwegian mathematician and physicist Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862–1951), Norwegian physicist and meteorologist...
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  • Bergen. Vilhelm Bjerknes' Vision for Scientific Weather Prediction Archived 2014-05-03 at the Wayback Machine (in English) Biography of Jacob Bjerknes by Arnt...
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  • theorist Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862–1951), Norwegian physicist, founder of modern meteorology Vilhelm Bissen (1836–1913), Danish sculptor Vilhelm Frimann Christie...
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    weather : Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meteorology. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801481604. OCLC 30264429. Jacob Bjerknes – the...
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  • oscillations. They were first described by Vilhelm Bjerknes in his 1906 Fields of Force. In Fields of Force Bjerknes lay out geometrical and dynamical analogies...
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    material at the base of the inner walls. The crater is named in honor of Vilhelm Bjerknes, a pioneer in the field of weather forecasting. By convention these...
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    bar and the millibar were introduced by the Norwegian meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes, who was a founder of the modern practice of weather forecasting, with...
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    Bjerknes (/ˈbjɜːrknɪs/ BYURK-niss, Norwegian: [ˈbjæ̂rkneːs]; 24 October 1825 – 20 March 1903) was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes'...
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  • Hugo Hergesell, Germany 1923 – Sir Napier Shaw, United Kingdom 1933 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norway 1948 – Sverre Petterssen, Norway 1953 – Gustav Swoboda, Czech...
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  • numerical methods of weather prediction". In 2010, he received the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal from the European Geosciences Union. Arakawa was one of the nine...
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  • vorticity gradient along which waves amplify during cyclogenesis. Vilhelm Bjerknes generalized Helmholtz's vorticity equation (1858) and Kelvin's circulation...
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  • the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. It is named after Vilhelm Bjerknes and his son Jacob Bjerknes, who did much to found the modern practice of weather...
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    physics at the University of Uppsala and, in particular, on hearing Vilhelm Bjerknes lecture on fluid dynamics. During the expedition of the Fram, Fridtjof...
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    led him to request physicist and meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes to study it scientifically. Bjerknes had his student, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, investigate...
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  • rotating frame also, known as the Poincaré–Bjerknes theorem, named after Henri Poincaré and Vilhelm Bjerknes, who derived the invariant in 1893 and 1898...
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    be one of two founders of modern geochemistry. The meteorologists Vilhelm Bjerknes and Ragnar Fjørtoft played a central role in the history of numerical...
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  • Abbe Aristotle David Bates Francis Beaufort Tor Bergeron Jacob Bjerknes Vilhelm Bjerknes Howard B. Bluestein Bert Bolin Léon Teisserenc de Bort Harold...
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  • United States (1887–1980) Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī – Persia (973–1048) Vilhelm Bjerknes – Norway (1862–1951) James Bjorken – United States (born 1934) Patrick...
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  • (1998) Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1998) EGS Vilhelm Bjerknes Medallist (1997) [2] Fellow of the Royal Society (1988) [3] Carl-Gustaf...
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    (1861–1930), polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, Nobel peace prize laureate Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862–1951), physicist and meteorologist, founded weather forecasting...
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    Institutions University of Kiel University of Karlsruhe University of Bonn Doctoral advisor Hermann von Helmholtz Doctoral students Vilhelm Bjerknes Signature...
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  • 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1925) 1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951) 1864 – Casey Jones...
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    Just after World War I, a group of meteorologists in Norway led by Vilhelm Bjerknes developed the Norwegian cyclone model that explains the generation...
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  • of the same letter. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab Bjerknes (lunar crater) Bjerknes (Martian crater) List of things named after Niels Henrik Abel...
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    the Legion of Honour Order of Georgi Dimitrov Padma Bhushan (2002) Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal (2008) ИТАР-ТАСС : Скончался академик Гурий Марчук, последний...
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  • politician, 16th Colombian Minister of National Education (b. 1903) 1951 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (b. 1862) 1953 – Eddie Cochems...
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    Fram. Nansen asked his colleague, Vilhelm Bjerknes to set one of his students upon study of the problem. Bjerknes tapped Ekman, who presented his results...
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