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William Ferrel
October 29, 1891 issue

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This article focuses on professor William Ferrel. If eminence in science is to be measured by the effect produced on methods of investigation and by importance of results, unrivalled eminence in meteorology may be fairly claimed for Ferrel, who held the highest place among the older European meteorologists. Ferrel applied a knowledge of physics and mechanics and a mathematical method of treatment to the solution of problems in meteorology. In these lines he was certainly a genius, his love for mathematics being shown even when as a boy he drew geometrical diagrams with a pitchfork on the door of his father's barn in Virginia.

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FERREL, William; METEOROLOGISTS; EARTH scientists; METEOROLOGY; PHYSICS; ACHIEVEMENT
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