41. Jacob Bjerknes Biography Jacob Aall Bonnevie bjerknes was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1897. The groupat Bergen, now including the Swedish meteorologists carl Gustav Rossby http://www.agu.org/inside/awards/bjerknes.html

JACOB BJERKNES (1897-1975) Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1897. He continued a legacy of hydrodynamic application theory that began with his physics professor grandfather Carl and was extended by Jacob's father, the theoretical physicist Vilhelm Bjerknes. From 1914 to 1916, Bjerknes attended the University of Kristiania (Oslo), where he became interested in his father's work relating hydrodynamic theory to atmospheric motion and weather prediction. Jacob followed his father and his group of young Norwegian meteorologists to the University of Leipzig, where their research focused on the formation of heavy precipitation along ordered cloud boundaries then called "squall lines." Through surface map analysis, Jacob discovered that these boundaries coincided with the convergence of wind fields, making the latter a potential detector and predictor of weather patterns. In 1926, Jacob served as a support meteorologist for Roald Amundsen's polar dirigible flight. In 1928 he married Hedvig Borthen. In 1931, he left his position as head of the weather service at Bergen to become professor of meteorology at the geophysical institute his father had founded. By 1933 he discovered yet another aspect of the cyclone phenomenon, the upper atmospheric wave. His preliminary formulation of the use of pressure tendency as a surface indication of cyclone development appeared in 1937. Jacob lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1933-1934 school year and emigrated to the United States in 1940 where he headed a government-sponsored meteorology annex, for weather forecasting, to the department of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). That same year of 1940 saw the invasion of Norway by Germany and Bjerknes' receipt of the Symons Medal from the Royal Meteorological Society. At UCLA, Bjerknes and fellow Norwegian Jorgen Holmboe further developed the pressure tendency and the extratropical cyclone theories.

42. Rn-Rz Rossby, carlGustav Arvid (1898-1957) Rossby was born in Sweden and In 1921he followed bjerknes to the University of Leipzig for a year and then http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/paleo/paleogloss/node38.html

43. Sample Chapter For Kragh, H.: Quantum Generations: A History Of Physics In The T For example, in the 1870s, the Norwegian physicist carl A. bjerknes studied themotion of bodies in an infinite and incompressible fluid and was led to the http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s6683.html

SEARCH: Keywords Author Title More Options Power Search Search Hints E-MAIL NOTICES NEW IN PRINT E-BOOKS ... HOME PAGE Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century Helge Kragh Book Description Reviews Table of Contents Class Use and other Permissions . For more information, send e-mail to permissions@pupress.princeton.edu Chapter One ether as the quasihypothetical, continuous, and all-pervading medium through which forces propagated with a finite speed. As we shall see, very similar views continued to play an important role throughout the twentieth century. Although many of Hicks's contemporaries would have subscribed to his philosophy, by 1895, the vortex theory of atoms had been abandoned by most physicists. Decades of theoretical work had led to no real progress and the grand vortex program was degenerating into sterile mathematics. negative matter The hydrodynamic ether models differed from the Laplacian program in physics, but they nonetheless rested on mechanical ground and were not attempts to overthrow the Newtonian worldview. Hydrodynamics, after all, is the mechanical science of fluid bodies. Thermodynamics, the science of heat and other manifestations of energy, constituted a much more difficult problem for the classical worldview. This branch of physics was sometimes argued not only to be different from mechanics in principle, but also to have priority over mechanics as a more satisfactory foundation on which all of physics could be built. In the 1890s, together with electrodynamics, thermodynamics entered as a competitor to mechanics as far as foundational problems were concerned. In this decade, there was a continual discussion of the

44. Archives Of The Scripps Institution Of Oceanography bjerknes s other students included carlGustaf Rossby and Theodore Hesselberg.Sverdrup followed bjerknes to Leipzig where he completed his dissertation on http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/archives/siohstry/sverdrup-biog.html

home Services Moving Image Collection Timeline ... Other Sites Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Biography Harald Ulrik Sverdrup on R/V E.W. Scripps, 1936 click on photo to see it larger Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was born in Sogndal on November 15, 1888 into a distinguished Norwegian family of theologians, jurists and professors with connections to the Grieg family. His father was Johan Edvard Sverdrup, and his mother was Maria Vollan. The Sverdrup children included Harald's brother Leif, who had a distinguished career in the United States as an engineer, founder of the St. Louis firm Sverdrup and Parcel, and a military career as an engineering general under Douglas MacArthur. Harald Sverdrup attended the military academy in Oslo from 1907-1908. He enrolled at the University of Oslo in "Physical Geography and Astronomy" and in 1911 was offered an assistantship with the preeminent meteorologist, Vilhelm Bjerknes whose work was funded by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Bjerknes's other students included Carl-Gustaf Rossby and Theodore Hesselberg. Sverdrup followed Bjerknes to Leipzig where he completed his dissertation on North Atlantic trade winds in 1917. His dissertation was later published in German as Der Nordatlantische Passat Wartime conditions in Germany drove the Norwegians back to Bergen, and Sverdrup accepted a post as chief scientist on Roald Amundsen's Arctic Expedition on R/V Maud. The expedition left Norway in 1918 for a three to four year cruise which stretched to seven and a half years. Sverdrup's experiences in the Arctic, and especially these years on R/V Maud formed his character. Years later he recalled the experience.

45. Archives Of The Scripps Institution Of Oceanography where Vilhelm bjerknes, his son Jacob, Harald Sverdrup, carl Gustaf Rossby and Jacob bjerknes, Columbus Iselin, Joseph Proudman, carlGustaf Rossby, http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/archives/siohstry/revelle-biog.html

home Services Moving Image Collection Timeline ... Other Sites Roger Randall Dougan Revelle Biography Roger Revelle , graduate student, 1936 click on photo to see it larger Roger Randall Dougan Revelle was born in Seattle, Washington on March 7, 1909. His parents, William Roger Revelle and Ella Robena Dougan Revelle were both graduates of the University of Washington. Ella Revelle taught briefly before her marriage. William Roger Revelle practiced law in partnership with two of his brothers. The family was completed with the birth of a second child, Eleanor, in 1911. The Revelles moved to Pasadena, California in 1917 when Ella Revelle was diagnosed with tuberculosis. William Roger Revelle established a law practice there and taught for twenty years in Pasadena junior high schools. While in school in Pasadena, Roger Revelle was among students tested and identified by psychologist Lewis M.Terman as a gifted student. Roger Revelle entered Pomona College in Claremont, California in 1925. His initial interest in journalism faded when Professor Alfred Woodford aroused his enthusiasm for geology. Revelle met Ellen Virginia Clark in 1928. She was a member of the first class of the neighboring Scripps College and a grandniece of Scripps College founder and patroness Ellen Browning Scripps . Revelle received his A.B. from Pomona in 1929 and remained at the college for a year of graduate study. Ellen Clark and Roger Revelle were married in Pasadena on June 22, 1931.

46. Pearson K V bjerknes, carl Anton bjerknes Gedachtnisrede gehalten vor der Gesellschaftder Wissenschaften zu Christiania am 17. April 1903 (Leipzig, 1903). http://statlab.fon.bg.ac.yu/srb1/IstorijaVer/mat21.htm

Linkovi do slicnih stranica Links to external pages There are some other pages which you may find useful concerning topics related to mathematics which can be found at: maintained by David E. Joyce (Clark University, USA) Including a comprehensive chronology of mathematicians and ~ maintained by Eric Weisstein (University of Virginia, USA) A comprehensive encyclopedia of Mathematics (and other subjects) and collection of biographies. maintained by Earl Fife and Larry Hutch (University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA) Many links to other sites maintained by Larry Riddle (Agnes Scott College, USA) Contains some detailed biographies and images of women mathematicians E and maintained by Jeff Miller (New Port Richey, USA) Contains information and discussion on the first occurrence of mathematical symbols and words. by Richard S Westfall (at the Galileo Project) a searchable database of scientists including information on over 160 mathematicians. maintained by Mark Woodard (Furman University, USA) Quotations by mathematicians or about mathematics maintained by Steven Finch (Mathsoft, USA)

47. DML: Digital Mathematics Library: Retrodigitized Mathematics Journals And Monogr 91, Cornell bjerknes, carl Anton NielsHenrik Abel, tableau de sa vie et sonaction scientifique. Traduction française revue et considérablement http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~rehmann/DML/dml_links_author_B.html

DML: Digital Mathematics Library Also: WDML: World Digital Mathematics Library Retrodigitized Mathematics Journals and Monographs Contains links to 1874 digitized books (> 385236 pages ) and to 145 digitized journals (> 2942143 pages). (Numbers of pages are preliminary; not all informations are already available.) Includes all the links mentioned on page 920 of: Allyn Jackson, "The Digital Mathematics Libary", Notices Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 50 (8), 2003 Local Copy A similar list is offered at http://www.wdml.org The database for this table is an ASCII based (ISO Latin 8859-1 extended) list , which may be parsed by this PERL script If you want items to be added here, please send me the necessary data. Lists ordered by "Journal", "Repository" (Journals only) or by "Author name", "Title" are provided, as well as an overview of the repositories Author: A B C D ... Z Title: A B C D ... Z Nr. Repository: Author, Title (Books only): Pages: Year(s): Type: Cornell Bachelier, Louis Jean Baptist : Calcul des probabilités, Tome I book GDZ Bachmann, Fridericus

48. DML: Digital Mathematics Library: Retrodigitized Mathematics Journals And Monogr bjerknes,carl Anton), 368, 1885, book. 25, Michigan Non-Euclidean geometry, http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~rehmann/DML/dml_links_title_N.html

DML: Digital Mathematics Library Also: WDML: World Digital Mathematics Library Retrodigitized Mathematics Journals and Monographs Contains links to 1874 digitized books (> 385236 pages ) and to 145 digitized journals (> 2942143 pages). (Numbers of pages are preliminary; not all informations are already available.) Includes all the links mentioned on page 920 of: Allyn Jackson, "The Digital Mathematics Libary", Notices Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 50 (8), 2003 Local Copy A similar list is offered at http://www.wdml.org The database for this table is an ASCII based (ISO Latin 8859-1 extended) list , which may be parsed by this PERL script If you want items to be added here, please send me the necessary data. Lists ordered by "Journal", "Repository" (Journals only) or by "Author name", "Title" are provided, as well as an overview of the repositories Author: A B C D ... Z Title: A B C D ... Z Nr. Repository: Title, Author: Pages: Year(s): Type: GDZ Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse journal GDZ Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und der Georg-Augusts-Universität zu Göttingen

49. Carl Bjerknes Université Montpellier II Translate this page carl bjerknes (1825-1903). Cette image et la biographie complète en anglaisrésident sur le site de l’université de St Andrews Écosse http://ens.math.univ-montp2.fr/SPIP/article.php3?id_article=838

50. Vilhelm Bjerknes Université Montpellier II carl bjerknes carl Borchardt carl Friedrich Gauss carl Jacobi carl Neumann http://ens.math.univ-montp2.fr/SPIP/article.php3?id_article=839

51. Ether Theory Knights of atom theory, hydrodynamics and electromagnetism. F. Bredikhin. Peter Lebedev.Heinrich Hertz. Alexander Popov. Alexander Stoletov. carl bjerknes http://bourabai.narod.ru/ether-e.htm

Why the Solar system is stable? What is the nature of normal and anomalous perihelions' motion? How to calculate perihelions motion correctly? How we can enlarge the accuracy of calculation of celestial bodies motion? Where is decision of the "three bodies problem"? About this please read a new article "Aether, the Great Whatchmaker" Epicurus Tit Lucretius Carus Giordano Bruno Nicolaus Copernicus Democritus Leucippus When somebody "hypothesis non fingo", he takes someone's else. Why Newtonian celestial mechanics is artifact? Why does not solve the problem of three bodies? How we can find the exact position of Lagrange's points in the general case? What is the true nature of gravitation? About those please read a new article "Aethereal Mechanics" Christiaan Huygens Johannes Kepler Rene Des Cartes Galileo Galilei Gotfrid Leibnitz Robert Hooke What is a true cause of solar activity? Why there were glacial epoches? By what reason magnetic storms and flares are caused on Sun? Is it possible to forecast the solar activity on millions of years onward? About this please read the new paper "Real Solar Activity" Immanuel Kant Johann Titius Johann Bode James Bradley M. Lomonosov

52. Science -- Sign In Armed with the new data, Jacob bjerknes, carlGustaf Rossby, and Jule Charneytransformed the science of atmospheric motion into its modern form between http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/290/5490/299

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53. O Lutefisk! And Some Norwegian Americans - The Gold Scales carl Anton bjerknes Vilhelm bjerknes Kenneth O. Bjork Theodore C. Blegen Ole BullLeif Ericson Kirsten Flagstad Ragnar Frisch Andrew Furuseth http://oaks.nvg.org/lm6ra1.html

O Lutefisk! In the US, there are many time-honoured Norwegian dishes adapted to American kitchens, and lutefisk forms part of one such dish. Contents O Lutefisk (song) Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed throughout: O Lutefisk (May be sung to the tune of "O Tannenbaum") O Lutefisk . . . O Lutefisk . . . how fragrant your aroma O Lutefisk . . . O Lutefisk . . . You put me in a coma. You smell so strong . . . you look like glue You taste yust like an overshoe But Lutefisk . . . come Saturday I tink I'll eat you anyvay. O Lutefisk . . . O Lutefisk . . . now everyone discovers Dat Lutefisk and lefse makes . . . Norvegians better lovers (the song goes on). [Rsn 157] Lutefisk is cod treated in a lye solution and served boiled. Lefse is a thin pancake from rolled dough served buttered and folded. These are half-iconic foods of Norwegian Americans in the "Lutefisk belt" across parts of the United States - and in other places too. A Few Norwegian Americans This is just a sample. Waldemar Ager (1869-1941) - Author of novels and short stories, a newspaper editor and lecturer.

54. 2001 SIC Symposium Programme 11.00, Karen Mathilde Haugland, carl Anton bjerknes (1825–1903) and his HydrodynamicApparatus. 11.30, Roland Wittje, bjerknes’ Hydrodynamic Analogies of http://www.sic.iuhps.org/conf2001/se_prog.htm

XX International Scientific Instrument Symposium Stockholm, Sweden THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SYMPOSIUM (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) Programme MAY CHANGE! SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER Registration. Snacks and Refreshments Klubbvillan (The Club Villa) at KVA MONDAY 15 OCTOBER Information and Setting Registration and Coffee at KVA Jenny Beckman, Researcher at the Center The Science City Caring for the Instrument Collection at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Karl Grandin, Assistant Director of the Center Information about the programme during the week Museums Pasquale Tucci A Database of Ancient Astronomical Instruments Stephen Johnston Redisplaying the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford Jim Bennett 15.00 Coffee and Fruit Instruments Between Nations Olof Beckman Klingenstierna and the Achromatic Lens Eugene Rudd A New Apparatus for Measuring the Chromatic Aberration of Lenses Anita McConnell 18.00 Buses to Observatoriemuseet (Observatory Museum) at the Old Stockholm Observatory. Buffet TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER At Tekniska museet The museum opens Welcome!

55. EGS Awards - Vilhelm Bjerknes Medallist - 1997 EGS Vilhelm bjerknes Medallist 1997. Brian J. Hoskins Fellow of the RoyalSociety and received the carl-Gustav Rossby Research Medal from the American http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/egs/medalists/hoskins97.htm

EGS Vilhelm Bjerknes Medallist - 1997 Brian J. Hoskins in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of atmospheric fronts and extratropical cyclones, and for his fundamental work in dynamic meteorology Brian Hoskins received his BA and PhD in mathematics from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1966 and 1970, respectively. He then was reader in atmospheric modelling (1976 - 1981), professor of meteorology (1981 - 1990) and head of the department of meteorology (1990 - present) at the University of Reading, UK. Brian Hoskins' recent interest in research is in dynamic meteorology, including storms, extratropical cyclones or monsoons. In this respect he has served as member, chairman or president in a number of commissions, associations and organizations, such as the Academia Europaea, Dynamical Commission of IAMAP, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) and WMO/ICSU Committee of world Climate Research Programme. In 1988, Brian Hoskins was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and received the Carl-Gustav Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society.

56. List Of Scientists By Field Translate this page bjerknes, carl Anton. bjerknes, Jacob Aall Bonnevie. bjerknes, Jacob Aall Bonnevie.bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren. bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren http://www.indiana.edu/~newdsb/b.html

Baade, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Babbage, Charles Babbage, Charles Babcock, Ernest Brown Babcock, Stephen Moulton Babcock, Stephen Moulton Babinet, Jacques Babinet, Jacques Babington, Charles Cardale Babington, William Baccelli, Guido Bach, Aleksei Nikolaevich Bach, Aleksei Nikolaevich Bache, Alexander Dallas Bachelard, Gaston Bachelier, Louis Bachmann, Augustus Quirinus Bachmann, Paul Gustav Heinrich Back, Ernst E. A. Bacon, Francis Bacon, Roger Bacon, Roger Bacon, Roger Badger, Richard McLean Badger, Richard McLean Baekeland, Leo Hendrik Baer, Karl Ernst von Baer, Karl Ernst von Baer, Karl Ernst von Baeyer, Adolf Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Baglivi, Georgius Baier, Johann Jacob Baier, Johann Jacob Baier, Johann Jacob Bailey, Edward Battersby Bailey, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Loring Woart Bailey, Solon Irving Baillie, Matthew Baillou, Guillaume de Bailly, Jean-Sylvain Baily, Francis Baily, Francis Bain, Alexander Bain, Alexander Baird, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Spencer Fullerton Baker, Henry Baker, John Gilbert Bakewell, Robert Balandin, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Balbus Balbus Baldi, Bernardino

57. New Dictionary Of Scientific Biography Translate this page bjerknes, carl Anton Blaschke, Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blichfeldt, Hans FrederickBliss, Gilbert Ames Bobillier, Étienne Bôcher, Maxime Bochner, Salomon http://www.indiana.edu/~newdsb/math.html

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58. Abstract bjerknes hydrodynamic analogies of magnetism a 20th century lecture by carl Anton bjerknes in Oslo, was driven further by his son Vilhelm. http://www.phys.ntnu.no/~rolandw/bjerknes.html

Last change on this page 26. 9. 2001 Back to my homepage Search Phone Directory Links to the World ... What's on Abstract of my presentation at the XXth Scientific Instrument Symposium Stockholm, Sweden, October 15-19, 2001 Bjerknes' hydrodynamic analogies of magnetism - a 20th century lecture demonstration In the first decades of the 20th century the development of hydrodynamic analogies of magnetism, established by Carl Anton Bjerknes in Oslo, was driven further by his son Vilhelm. Sets of demonstration instruments were built by several Scandinavian and German instrument makers and used in physics lectures until at least the 1920s. The Bjerknes instruments are merely examples of a whole range of materialized hydrodynamic and hydrostatic analogies of electricity and magnetism so far widely being neglected by historians of science. To convincingly show the attraction and repulsion of pulsating and vibrating bodies has always been a crucial and most troublesome part of Bjerknes' experiments. In order to be transformed into a successful lecture demonstration the experimental set-up had to fulfill two criteria: 1) the skills to carry out the experiments had to be achieved by the lecturer or his assistant in a reasonable amount of time, 2) the effect had to be observable by the students. It is left to investigate whether the final design of the instruments promoted by Vilhelm Bjerknes overcame the problems associated with easy and convincing demonstrations. As a part of my presentation I will try to demonstrate some of Bjerknes' hydrodynamic experiments using the original set of instruments from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, bought in 1912.

59. Project Description "Acoustics In Science, Art And Media" Vilhelm bjerknes, who had been Hertz assistant at Bonn in the early 1890s were carl Anton bjerknes hydrodynamic analogies of electricity and magnetism, http://www.phys.ntnu.no/~rolandw/postdoc.html

Last change on this page: March 7, 2004 Back to my homepage Search Phone Directory Links to the World ... What's on Acoustics in Science, Art and Media From the acoustical cabinet of the 19 th century to the age of electroacoustics. The project Acoustics in Science, Art and Media is a part of the Forum for Kunnskapshistorie (Forum for the History of Knowledge) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. Its main goals are: To follow the development of acoustics as a field of academic research and teaching from the beginnings of modern acoustics in the 19 th century until the breakthrough of electroacoustics in the interwar period. The main focus lies on the early 20 th century up to the 1930s and the development of scientific instruments and experimental research and teaching practices. Historians of science have so far mainly focused on 19 th century acoustics and given little attention to the fundamental changes that occurred in acoustical technologies and practices in the first half of the 20 th century. These changes were expressed in the rise of technical acoustics and applied research and consulting, and the appearance of electrical engineers and institutions of telecommunication research and development in acoustics research. The project aims at contributing to the historiography of acoustics in this period.

60. Albert Einstein, The Incorrigible Plagiarist Jon bjerknes is the great great grandson of carl Anton bjerknes, We endthis chapter with an Appendix written by bjerknes himself for the next http://itis.volta.alessandria.it/episteme/ep6/ep6-bjerk-rec.htm

Albert Einstein, The Incorrigible Plagiarist (Christopher Jon Bjerknes) (XTX Inc., DownersGorve, Illinois, USA, 2002) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources (Albert Einstein) Proposing again the remark which we made some time ago in the presentation of Kostro's Einstein and the Ether Episteme , N. 3, 21 April 2001, pp. 306-310), "common people", and even "common scientists", will be surprised by the facts they discover in Bjerknes' book (about 400 pages), which is quite useful, in that it establishes a realistic - and more reasonable! - picture of one of the most propagandized scientific myths of all time, namely Einstein's myth Einstein as Myth and Muse , Cambridge University Press, 1985). As a matter of fact, reading this text should be a must for all people professionally interested in the "history" of Physics or of Science (for these readers the book, its "polemical" thesis notwithstanding, could become an indispensable tool, packed as it is with information, quotations, meticulous references, etc.), but it is highly recommended even to teachers, scientists of all kind, philosophers, epistemologists, in general to every person interested in the evolution of human civilization and knowledge. Indeed, it would be difficult to deny that the emergence of modern science is one of the most relevant events of all times, and that Relativity in particular is the "theory" which had the greatest impact and influence on XXth Century Western thought - though, in our opinion, and clearly in Bjerknes' as well, a

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