Featured Memoir
Norman A. Phillips by Dennis L. Hartmann and John Marshall
“Norman Alton Phillips was a leading theorist during the early days of the development of weather and climate models following World War II. He participated in the creation of the first numerical weather prediction models at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. He developed the first computer model of the atmosphere’s general circulation, a forerunner of the global climate models in use today.”
About the Series
Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagues familiar with the subject’s work write these memoirs and as such, the series provides a biographical history of science in America.
The Online Collection includes approximately 1,900 memoirs, including those of famed naturalist Louis Agassiz; Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Thomas Edison; Alexander Graham Bell; noted anthropologist Margaret Mead; and psychologist and philosopher John Dewey.
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