Buys Ballot Medal
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The Buys Ballot Medal is a prize given out by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
. It was instituted in 1888 to honor the achievements of meteorologist C.H.D. Buys Ballot
. The prize is awarded approximately every ten years to an individual that has made significant contributions to meteorology.
The recipients have been:
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands...
. It was instituted in 1888 to honor the achievements of meteorologist C.H.D. Buys Ballot
C.H.D. Buys Ballot
Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named.-Biography:...
. The prize is awarded approximately every ten years to an individual that has made significant contributions to meteorology.
The recipients have been:
- 1893 – Julius von HannJulius von HannJulius Ferdinand von Hann was an Austrian meteorologist. He is seen as the father of modern meteorology.-Biography:...
, Austria - 1903 – Richard AssmannRichard AssmannRichard Assmann ; was a German meteorologist and physician who was a native of Magdeburg....
and Arthur BersonArthur BersonArthur Josef Stanislaus Berson was a Polish meteorologist and pioneer of aerology who was a native of Neu Sandez, Galicia ....
, Germany - 1913 – Hugo HergesellHugo HergesellHugo Emil Hergesell was a German meteorologist.-Works:* He co-founded "Beiträge zur Physik der freien Atmosphäre"...
, Germany - 1923 – Sir Napier ShawNapier ShawSir William Napier Shaw FRS, , was a British meteorologist. He introduced the air pressure unit millibar, as well as the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes....
, United Kingdom - 1933 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norway
- 1948 – Sverre PetterssenSverre PetterssenSverre Petterssen was a Norwegian meteorologist, prominent in the field of weather analysis and forecasting, and an international leader in meteorology.-Early life:...
, Norway - 1953 – Gustav Swoboda, Czech Republic
- 1963 – Eric Palmén, Finland
- 1973 – Joseph SmagorinskyJoseph SmagorinskyJoseph Smagorinsky was an American meteorologist and the first director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.- Early life :...
, United States - 1982 – Aksel C. Wiin-NielsenAksel C. Wiin-NielsenAksel C. Wiin-Nielsen was a Danish professor of meteorology at University of Copenhagen.- Career :Wiin-Nielsen became the first director of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in January 1974...
, Denmark - 1995 – Veerabhadran RamanathanVeerabhadran RamanathanVeerabhadran Ramanathan is Victor Alderson Professor of Applied Ocean Sciences and director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has contributed to many areas of the atmospheric sciences including developments to...
, United States - 2004 – Edward Norton LorenzEdward Norton LorenzEdward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory. He discovered the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect.-Biography:...
, United States