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Jule Charney

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Jule Charney · Science & Medicine

What

Meteorologist and co-founder of numerical weather prediction

When

1917, San Francisco, California, United States — 1981, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Jule Charney is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Meteorologist and co-founder of numerical weather prediction

How & why

Charney was an American meteorologist who put weather forecasting on a rigorous mathematical footing and co-led the first successful numerical weather predictions in 1950. He was born in San Francisco to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science

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Meteorologist and co-founder of numerical weather prediction

1917

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science