ETH Zurich: Ulrike Lohmann receives Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal 2025
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Vilhelm Bjerknes
Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norwegian geophysicist and meteorologist with essential contributions to the foundation of the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are still in use in numerical weather prediction and climate modeling. He is the founder of the Bergen School of Meteorology, which was successful in advancing weather prediction and met…
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science · Norwegian geophysicist and meteorologist (1862–1951) · physicist · meteorologist · university teacher · mathematician · climatologist · geophysicist · scientist · also Vilhelm Bjerknes, Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes, Bjerknes
Born 14 March 1862 · Died 9 April 1951 · Q164389
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2025· 1 entry
2009· 1 entry
Published “How does climate warming affect plant‐pollinator interactions?” in Ecology Letters — cited 964 times.
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1969· 1 entry
Published “ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS FROM THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC<sup>1</sup>” in Monthly Weather Review — cited 1,902 times.
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1951· 1 entry
Died 1951-04-09.
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1939· 1 entry
Won Vega Medal (1939).
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1938· 2 entries
Won Gunnerus Medal (1938).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (1938).
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1933· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1933).
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Won Buys Ballot Medal (1933).
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1932· 2 entries
Won Symons Gold Medal (1932).
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Held a position at the University of Oslo
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1930).
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1926· 1 entry
Won Alexander Agassiz Medal (1926).
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1917· 1 entry
Founded the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen where he wrote his book On the Dynamics of the Circular Vortex with Applications to the Atmosphere and to Atmospheric Vortex and Wave Motion (1921), and laid the
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1916· 1 entry
Started the publication Synoptische Darstellung atmosphärischer Zustände über Europa
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1908· 1 entry
Awarded Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence, Mathematics-Natural sciences class (1908).
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1907· 1 entry
Bjerknes returned to the Royal Frederick University in Oslo before becoming professor of geophysics at the University of Leipzig in 1912
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1905· 1 entry
And of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1936 and a Fellow of the Royal Society
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1895· 2 entries
Furnished a complete theory of the phenomenon of electric resonance, involving a method of utilizing resonance experiments for the determination of the wavelengths, and especially of the damping (the logarithmic decre
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Became professor of applied mechanics and mathematical physics at the Stockholm University where he had been lecturer since 1893
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1893· 1 entry
Bjerknes had married Honoria Bonnevie, who in earlier years assisted him much in his scientific work
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1892· 2 entries
Studied at University of Oslo, Doctor (1892).
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Studied at University of Bonn (1890–1892).
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1889· 1 entry
Studied at University of Paris (1889–1889).
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1888· 1 entry
Studied at University of Oslo (1880–1888).
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1881· 1 entry
And aroused greatest interest in the scientific world
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-03-14.
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