Leo Pollak
Leo Pollak · Science & Medicine
Meteorologist known for statistical climatology and early computational methods
1888, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) — 1964, Dublin, Ireland
Czechoslovakia · Ireland
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Leo Wenzel Pollak was a meteorologist and geophysicist, director of the Geophysical Institute in Prague, who advanced statistical climatology and pioneered early mechanical and computational methods for processing scientific data. A Jewish scientist, he fled to Ireland in 1939 and worked at the Irish Meteorological Service and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Meteorologist known for statistical climatology and early computational methods
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