biography
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Suomi, Verner (Edward)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1915–95)
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| biography:
| Meteorologist, born in Eveleth, Minnesota, USA. Inventor of the Spinscan weather satellite camera (1963), he began as a Minnesota public school teacher (1938–42). At the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1948) he helped found the Space Science and Engineering Center (1967) and helped develop the man-computer interactive data access system (McIDAS). |
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