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Symons Gold Medal

Index Symons Gold Medal

The Symons Gold Medal is awarded biennially by the Royal Meteorological Society for distinguished work in the field of meteorological science. [1]

49 relations: Alexander Buchan (meteorologist), Basil John Mason, Brian Hoskins, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Charles Priestley (meteorologist), Cleveland Abbe, David Atlas, David Brunt, Edward Norton Lorenz, Erik Palmén, Ernest Gold (meteorologist), Frank Pasquill, G. I. Taylor, G. M. B. Dobson, George James Symons, George Simpson (meteorologist), Gilbert Walker, Graham Sutton, Henry George Lyons, Hubert Lamb, Hugh Robert Mill, Hugo Hergesell, Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson, Jacob Bjerknes, John F. B. Mitchell, John Michael Wallace, John Monteith, John S. A. Green, John Sawyer (meteorologist), John T. Houghton, Joseph Smagorinsky, Jule Gregory Charney, Keith Browning, Kirill Y. Kondratyev, Klaus Hasselmann, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, List of awards named after people, List of science and technology awards, Napier Shaw, P.A. Sheppard, Philip Drazin, Raymond Hide, Reginald Sutcliffe, Royal Meteorological Society, Sverre Petterssen, Sydney Chapman (mathematician), Tor Bergeron, Vilhelm Bjerknes, William Henry Dines.

Alexander Buchan (meteorologist)

Dr Alexander Buchan LLD FRS FRSE (11 April 1829, Kinnesswood, Portmoak – 13 May 1907, Edinburgh) was a Scottish meteorologist, oceanographer and botanist and is credited with establishing the weather map as the basis of modern weather forecasting.

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Basil John Mason

Sir Basil John Mason, CB, FRS (18 August 1923 – 6 January 2015), better known as John Mason, was an expert on cloud physics and former Director-General of the Meteorological Office from 1965 to 1983 and Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) from 1994 to 1996.

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Brian Hoskins

Sir Brian John Hoskins CBE FRS, (born 17 May 1945) is a British dynamical meteorologist and climatologist based at the Imperial College London and the University of Reading.

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Carl-Gustaf Rossby

Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby (28 December 1898 – 19 August 1957) was a Swedish-born American meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics.

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Charles Priestley (meteorologist)

Charles Henry Brian Priestley, FRS (8 July 1915 – 18 May 1998) was a British meteorologist.

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Cleveland Abbe

Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 – October 28, 1916) was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones.

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David Atlas

David Atlas (May 25, 1924 – November 10, 2015) was an American meteorologist and one of the pioneers of radar meteorology.

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David Brunt

Sir David Brunt, KBE, FRS (17 June 1886 – 5 February 1965) was a Welsh meteorologist.

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Edward Norton Lorenz

Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008) was an American mathematician, meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory.

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Erik Palmén

Erik Herbert Palmén (31 August 1898 – 19 March 1985) was Finnish meteorologist, born in Vaasa.

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Ernest Gold (meteorologist)

Ernest Gold CB DSO OBE FRS (24 July 1881 – 30 January 1976) was a British meteorologist.

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Frank Pasquill

Frank Pasquill FRS (8 September 1914 – 15 October 1994) was an English meteorologist at the Meteorological Office who worked throughout his career in the field of atmospheric diffusion and micrometeorology.

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G. I. Taylor

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist and mathematician, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory.

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G. M. B. Dobson

Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson FRS (25 February 1889 – 11 March 1975) was a British physicist and meteorologist who did important work on ozone.

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George James Symons

George James Symons FRS (6 August 1838 – 10 March 1900) was a British meteorologist who founded and managed the British Rainfall Organisation, an unusually dense and widely distributed network of rainfall data collection sites throughout the British Isles.

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George Simpson (meteorologist)

Sir George Clarke Simpson KCB CBE FRS HFRSE LLD (2 September 1878 – 1 January 1965) was a British meteorologist.

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Gilbert Walker

Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker, CSI, FRS (14 June 1868 – 4 November 1958) was an English physicist and statistician of the 20th century.

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Graham Sutton

Sir Oliver Graham Sutton CBE FRS (4 February 1903 – 26 May 1977) was a Welsh mathematician and meteorologist.

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Henry George Lyons

Colonel Sir Henry George Lyons FRS (11 October 1864 – 1944) was a geologist and director of the Science Museum in London.

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Hubert Lamb

Hubert Horace Lamb (22 September 1913 in Bedford – 28 June 1997 in Holt, Norfolk) was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit in 1972 in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

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Hugh Robert Mill

Hugh Robert Mill FRSE (28 May 1861 – 5 April 1950) was a Scottish geographer and meteorologist who was influential in the reform of geography teaching, and in the development of meteorology as a science.

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Hugo Hergesell

Hugo Emil Hergesell (29 May 1859 in Bromberg – 6 June 1938 in Berlin) was a German meteorologist.

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Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson

Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson (19 August 1838 – 29 July 1925) was a Swedish meteorologist and professor at Uppsala university between 1878 and 1907.

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Jacob Bjerknes

Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes (in English; November 2, 1897 – July 7, 1975) was a meteorologist.

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John F. B. Mitchell

John Francis Brake Mitchell OBE FRS (born 7 October 1948) is a British climatologist and climate modeller.

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John Michael Wallace

John Michael Wallace (born October 28, 1940), is a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, as well as the former director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)—a joint research venture between the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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John Monteith

John Lennox Monteith DSc, FRS (3 September 1929 – 20 July 2012) was a British scientist who pioneered the application of physics to biology.

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John S. A. Green

John Sidney Adcock Green (1931–2012) was a British meteorologist.

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John Sawyer (meteorologist)

John Stanley Sawyer FRS (19 June 1916 – 19 September 2000) was a British meteorologist, and Fellow of the Royal Society.

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John T. Houghton

Sir John Theodore Houghton (born 30 December 1931) is a Welsh scientist who was the co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group.

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Joseph Smagorinsky

Joseph Smagorinsky (29 January 1924 – 21 September 2005) was an American meteorologist and the first director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL).

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Jule Gregory Charney

Jule Gregory Charney (January 1, 1917 – June 16, 1981) was an American meteorologist who played an important role in developing weather prediction.

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Keith Browning

Keith Anthony Browning (born 31 July 1938) is a British meteorologist who worked at Imperial College London, the Met Office, and the University of Reading departments of meteorology.

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Kirill Y. Kondratyev

Kirill Y. Kondratyev (14 June 1920 – 1 May 2006) was a Russian atmospheric physicist.

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Klaus Hasselmann

Klaus Hasselmann (born 25 October 1931) is a leading oceanographer and climate modeller.

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Léon Teisserenc de Bort

Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (5 November 1855 in Paris, France – 2 January 1913 in Cannes, France) was a French meteorologist and a pioneer in the field of aerology.

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List of awards named after people

This is a list of prizes that are named after people.

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List of science and technology awards

A list of medals, prizes, and other awards in the fields of science, technology, engineering and social science.

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Napier Shaw

Sir William Napier Shaw FRS HFRSE LLD (March 4, 1854 – March 23, 1945), was a British meteorologist.

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P.A. Sheppard

Professor Percival Albert "Peter" Sheppard CBE FRS (12 May 1907 – 22 December 1977) was a Meteorologist at Imperial College, London from 1952 to 1974 and thereafter emeritus professor.

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Philip Drazin

Philip Gerald Drazin (1934 – 10 January 2002) was a British mathematician, working in fluid dynamics.

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Raymond Hide

Raymond Hide CBE FRS (17 May 1929 – 6 September 2016) was a British physicist, who was formerly professor of physics at the University of Oxford and, since 2000, senior research investigator at Imperial College, London.

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Reginald Sutcliffe

Reginald Cockcroft Sutcliffe FRS (16 November 1904 – 28 May 1991) was a British meteorologist.

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Royal Meteorological Society

The Royal Meteorological Society is a long-established institution that promotes academic and public engagement in weather and climate science.

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Sverre Petterssen

Sverre Petterssen (19 February 1898 – 31 December 1974) was a Norwegian meteorologist, prominent in the field of weather analysis and forecasting.

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Sydney Chapman (mathematician)

Sydney Chapman FRS (29 January 1888 – 16 June 1970) was a British mathematician and geophysicist.

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Tor Bergeron

Tor Bergeron (15 August 1891 – 13 June 1977) was a Swedish meteorologist who proposed a mechanism for the formation of precipitation in clouds.

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Vilhelm Bjerknes

Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes (14 March 1862 – 9 April 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting.

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William Henry Dines

William Henry Dines BA FRS (5 August 1855 – 24 December 1927) was an English meteorologist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symons_Gold_Medal

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