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Biography of Vilhelm Bjerknes
Name: Vilhelm Bjerknes
Birth Date: March 14, 1862
Death Date: April 9, 1951
Place of Birth: Kristiania, Norway
Nationality: Norwegian
Gender: Male
Occupations: meteorologist, geophysicist, physicist
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951), a pioneer of modern meteorology, was especially known for his studies in hydrodynamics and thermodynamics and their relation to atmospheric motion. Following the steps of his father and even improving on his work, he devised a program of weather analysis and forecasting and founded the Geophysical Institute and Weather Service of Bergen.Vilhelm Bjerknes was born on March 14, 1862, to Carl Anton Bjerknes, a respected mathematician and physicist, and Aletta Koren, a minister's daughter, in Kristiania (later renamed Oslo), Norway. Bjerknes' father was a devoted researcher of hydrodynamics. He had been a respected teacher of physics, but turned his focus towards the study of fluid-related movement, and also researched comparable studies in electro-dynamic phenomena. The younger Bjerknes was equally devoted to his father, and started working alongside him early in his scientific career. Although he assisted his father in his research, it was not long before he set out …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the theoretical and practical side of meteorology. He remained so even after he retired from the University of Oslo in 1932, at the age of 70. His son, Jacob, continued in the research footsteps of his father grandfather, and furthered the study of modern meteorology. Bjerknes died of heart failure in Oslo, Norway on April 9, 1951The result of 100 years of research done collectively by Carl, Vilhelm, and Jacob Bjerknes has helped to transform meteorology from a science of random observation to that of data collection and weather forecasting based on physical and mathematical principles. Further Reading Friedman, Robert Marc, Appropriating the Weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology, Cornell University Press, 1989.Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Gale Research, 1995.World of Scientific Discovery, 2nd. ed., Gale Group, 1999."Bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren," http://www.encyclopedia.com/printable/01521.html (11/10/99).Eliassen, Arnt. "Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes," http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/jbjerknes.html (11/2/99).
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