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Categories: Foreign Members of the Royal Society, Recipients of the Buys Ballot Medal (Netherlands), Norwegian mathematicians, 1951 deaths, Bjerknes family
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Vilhelm Bjerknes  V. Bjerknes  VFK Bjerknes  Vilhelm F. Bjerknes  Vilhelm F. K. Bjerknes
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Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. Wikipedia
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Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. Wikipedia
Norwegian physicist and meteorologist, son of Carl Anton Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Buys Ballot Medal
Gunnerus Medal
Alexander Agassiz Medal
Vega Medal
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
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CHILD
Jacob Bjerknes
Kristian Bjerknes
Wilhelm Bjerknes
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Norway
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Nordisk familjebok
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Hertz
Carl Anton Bjerknes
Henri Poincaré
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Jørgen Holmboe
Svein Rosseland
Enok Palm
Harald Sverdrup
Halvor Solberg
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EDUCATED AT
University of Oslo
EMPLOYER
Carnegie Institution for Science
Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen
FATHER
Carl Anton Bjerknes
FIELD OF WORK
meteorology
physics
GIVEN NAME
Vilhelm
INFLUENCED BY
Hertz
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
German
Norwegian
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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NOMINATED FOR
Nobel Prize in Physics
NOTABLE WORK
Bergen School
Bjerknes force
OCCUPATION
mathematician
physicist
professeur des universités
meteorologist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Christiania
PLACE OF BURIAL
Vår Frelsers gravlund
PLACE OF DEATH
Oslo
POSITION HELD
professor
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Ernst Wilhelm Bjerknes
Marie Bjerknes
WORK LOCATION
Leipzig
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Vilhelm Bjerknes
Wikidata
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Vilhelm Bjerknes
Wikipedia Redirections
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V. Bjerknes, VFK Bjerknes, Vilhelm F. Bjerknes, Vilhelm F. K. Bjerknes, Vilhelm Friman Bjerknes, Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren Bjerknes
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Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes

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