Vilhelm Bjerknes
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Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norwegian geophysicist and meteorologist with essential contributions to the foundation of the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive e
Bjerknes, 1920s
Vilhelm Bjerknes with his wife Honoria and his first two children, Karl Anton and Jacob Bjerknes, circa 1898
Vilhelm Bjerknes with his brother Ernst Wilhelm Bjerknes (left) and his sister-in-law, Norway's first female professor, Kristine Bonnevie at her cabin Snefugl at Mysuseter circa 1946
Jacob Bjerknes
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Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes was a Swedish-born Norwegian-American meteorologist. He is known for his key paper in which he pointed the dynamics of the polar front, mechanism for north–south heat tran
Vilhelm Bjerknes
…undertaken. He was the originator of an improved and more scientific weather service, afterwards controlled by his son and collaborator, the meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes (1897–1975). From 1926 to his retirement in 1932, he held a position at the University of Oslo. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy…
Bjerknes in 1968
Jacob Bjerknes with his father Vilhelm Bjerknes, 1897
Jacob and his wife Hedvig Bjerknes, née Borthen, Tivoli, Denmark, 1929