6 lives in this collection worked in meteorology, from 384 BC to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
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Greek philosopher and student of Plato who founded the Lyceum and wrote the first systematic treatises on motion, the cosmos, formal logic, zoology and meteorology, which framed natural science until the Scientific Revolution.
natural philosophy, physics, cosmology
Magdeburg engineer and burgomaster who invented the air pump and demonstrated atmospheric pressure with the Magdeburg hemispheres.
pneumatics, vacuum physics, electrostatics
Quaker teacher in Manchester who founded the chemical atomic theory, stated the law of partial pressures and gave the first scientific account of colour blindness.
chemistry, physics, meteorology
American physicist who built the first powerful electromagnets, discovered self-induction and the oscillatory discharge, and was the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
electromagnetism, electrical engineering, acoustics
Astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune from the perturbations of Uranus, found the anomalous advance of Mercury's perihelion, and built the theories of all the major planets.
celestial mechanics, astronomy, meteorology
Cambridge physicist who founded the statistical theory of turbulence and the dislocation theory of plasticity, and whose name attaches to Taylor vortices, Taylor dispersion, the Rayleigh–Taylor instability and the Taylor cone.
fluid mechanics, turbulence, hydrodynamic stability