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Léon Teisserenc de Bort
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Born November 5, 1855 • Paris • France
Died January 2, 1913 (aged 57) • Cannes • France
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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
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John Dalton
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A.A. Michelson.
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Wladimir Köppen
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Auguste Piccard, 1961
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Swiss-Belgian physicist
Tetsuya Fujita
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Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
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Andrija Mohorovičić
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James Martin Stagg
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Vilhelm Bjerknes
Norwegian meteorologist
Hugh Robert Mill
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Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
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Henry Melson Stommel
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Daniell, John Frederic
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Jean André Deluc
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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