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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Jacob A.B. Bjerknes

Title:

Professor of Meteorology

Affiliation:

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles,California  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1975

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1966

Citation:

"By watching and studying maps he discovered the cylone-making waves of the air and the climate-controlling changes of the sea."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 6, 1967.

 

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