biography
| name: |
Buys Ballot, Christoph H(endrick) D(iederick)
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pronunciation:
[biyz balot]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1817–90)
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| biography:
| Meteorologist, born in Kloetinge, The Netherlands. He studied and taught at the University of Utrecht, and founded the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in 1854. He was the inventor of the aeroklinoscope and of a system of weather signals. He stated the law of wind direction in relation to atmospheric pressure in 1857 (Buys Ballot's law). |
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