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Vincent Joseph Schaefer
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How Do You Balance a Chemical Equation?
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How Do Hurricanes Get Their Names?
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Why Is a Group of Molecules Called a Mole?
Weather map, meteorology
Why Is Predicting the Weather So Difficult for Meteorologists?
Hurricane Catarina, which hit Brazil, was taken by an Expedition 8 crewmember on the International Space Station, March 27, 2004. Tropical cyclones below the equator rotate clockwise when viewed from space.
How Are Hurricanes and Typhoons Named?
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11 of the World’s Most Famous Warplanes
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) standing on rock, side view, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
The Fastest Animals on Earth
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9 Bizarre Myths About Pregnancy
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What’s the Difference Between Bison and Buffalo?
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Flags That Look Alike
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10 Great Sports Rivalries
Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
9 Mind-Altering Plants

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Born July 4, 1906 • Schenectady • New York
Died July 25, 1993 (aged 87) • Schenectady • New York
Subjects Of Study cloud seeding • precipitation
Tetsuya Fujita
Japanese-American meteorologist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Tor Harold Percival Bergeron
Scandinavian meteorologist
Stanley Miller
American biochemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
American rocket scientist and chemist
Gilbert N. Lewis
American chemist
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Willard Frank Libby
American chemist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Elias James Corey
American chemist
Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart
British-American chemist

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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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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science