Buys Ballot Medal

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The Buys Ballot Medal ( Dutch Buys Ballot Medal ) is awarded once per decade by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in honor of Christoph Buys Ballot to personalities who have made outstanding achievements in the field of meteorology .

Award winners

1893 - Julius von Hann , Austria-Hungary
1903 - Richard Assmann and Arthur Berson , German Empire
1913 - Hugo Hergesell , German Empire
1923 - Napier Shaw (1854-1945), United Kingdom
1933 - Vilhelm Bjerknes , Norway
1948 - Sverre Petterssen , Norway
1953 - Gustav Swoboda (1893–1956), Czechoslovakia
1963 - Erik Palmén (1898–1985), Finland
1973 - Joseph Smagorinsky , USA
1982 - Aksel Wiin-Nielsen (1924-2010), Denmark
1995 - Veerabhadran Ramanathan , USA
2004 - Edward N. Lorenz , USA
2014 - Brian Hoskins , United Kingdom

literature

W. Lablans, J. Oerlemans: A Buys Ballot Medal for Edward Lorenz. A Reflection on the History of the Prestigious Award and Evolving Attitudes Toward Predictability (PDF; 159 kB). In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 87, 2006, pp. 1662-1666, doi : 10.1175 / BAMS-87-12-1662 (English).

Web links

Buys Ballot Medal on the KNAW website (Dutch)