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Noun Named Entity
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Vilhelm 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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Homo sapiens
AWARD RECEIVED
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Buys Ballot Medal
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Gunnerus Medal
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Alexander Agassiz Medal
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Vega Medal
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Foreign Member of the Royal Society
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CHILD
Jacob Bjerknes
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Kristian Bjerknes
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Wilhelm Bjerknes
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
ꠘꠞꠅꠦ
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Nordisk Familjebok
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
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Hertz
Carl Anton Bjerknes
Henri Poincaré
DOCTORAL STUDENT
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Jørgen Holmboe
Svein Rosseland
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Enok Palm
Harald Sverdrup
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Halvor Solberg
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EDUCATED AT
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University of Oslo
EMPLOYER
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Carnegie Institution for Science
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Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen
FATHER
Carl Anton Bjerknes
FIELD OF WORK
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meteorology
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physics
GIVEN NAME
Vilhelm
INFLUENCED BY
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Hertz
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
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English
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German
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Norwegian
MEMBER OF
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National Academy of Sciences
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Royal Society
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg
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Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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NOMINATED FOR
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Nobel Prize in Physics
NOTABLE WORK
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Bergen School
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Bjerknes force
OCCUPATION
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mathematician
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physicist
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professeur des universités
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meteorologist
PLACE OF BIRTH
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Christiania
PLACE OF BURIAL
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Vår Frelsers gravlund
PLACE OF DEATH
Oslo
POSITION HELD
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professor
SEX OR GENDER
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male
SIBLING
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Ernst Wilhelm Bjerknes
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Marie Bjerknes
WORK LOCATION
Leipzig
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Vilhelm Bjerknes

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