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C. H. D. Buys Ballot
Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist who is the namesake of Buys Ballot's law. He was the first president of the International Meteorological Organization, the organization that would become the World Meteorological Organization.
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science · Dutch chemist and meteorologist (1817–1890) · physicist · mathematician · meteorologist · chemist · university teacher · director · cartographer · climatologist · scientist · also C. H. D. Buys Ballot, C.H.D. Buys Ballot, Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot, Christophorus Buys Ballot, Ballot
Born 10 October 1817 · Died 3 February 1890 · Q441099
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1970· 1 entry
The lunar crater Buys-Ballot, on the far side of the Moon, was named in his honour
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1890· 1 entry
Died 1890-02-03.
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1883· 1 entry
Awarded 2nd Class Order of the Crown (1883).
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1874· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Officer of the Order of Franz Josef I (1874).
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1873· 1 entry
Organized and became the first chairman of the International Meteorological Organization, a precursor of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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1860· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1860).
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1855· 1 entry
And an honorary member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters in 1887
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1854· 1 entry
And he remained its chief director until his death
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1847· 2 entries
Used the table now named after him to determine the period of the sun's rotation from daily observations of temperature in the Netherlands from 1729 to 1846
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Was appointed professor of mathematics and from 1867 until his retirement he was professor of physics
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1845· 1 entry
By using a group of musicians playing a calibrated note on a train in the Utrecht-Amsterdam line
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1844· 1 entry
Became lecturer in mineralogy and geology at Utrecht; he added theoretical chemistry in 1846
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1817· 1 entry
Born 1817-10-10.
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