The National Medal of Science - Physical Sciences 1966
Prize: "By watching and studying maps he discovered the cylone-making waves of the air and the climate-controlling changes of the sea."
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A Biographical Memoir by Arnt Eliassen , National Academy of Sciences, 17 pages, 21 pages total.
Name: Jacob Aall Bonnevie BjerknesÂ
Birth: 2 November, 1897
Death: 7 July, 1975
Award: Physical Sciences
National Medal of Science:
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, CA USA
Title: Professor of Meterology
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.
Biography
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