Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (born 1862)

Vilhelm Bjerknes

Norwegian geophysicist and meteorologist (1862–1951)

Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norwegian geophysicist and meteorologist who did much to lay the foundation of the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are still in use in numerical weather prediction and climate modeling. He…