biography
| name: |
Bjerknes, Vilhelm F(riman) K(oren)
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pronunciation:
[byerknes]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1951)
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| biography:
| Physicist and meteorologist, born in Kristiania (now Oslo, Norway). He was professor at Stockholm (1895–1907), Kristiania (1907–12), Leipzig (1912–17), and Oslo (1926–51). A pioneer of weather-forecasting, he studied the large-scale dynamics of air masses, and with his son Jacob and others developed the theory of fronts. |
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