C. H. D. Buys Ballot
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 134 years ago |
Date of birth | October 10,1817 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Kloetinge |
Netherlands | |
Date of died | February 3,1890 |
Died | Utrecht |
Netherlands | |
Known for | Buys Ballot's law |
Buys-Ballot's law | |
Job | Mathematician |
Physicist | |
Chemist | |
Nationality | Dutch |
Education | Utrecht University |
Academic advisor | Richard van Rees |
Parents | Antonie Jacobus Buys Ballot |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 590748 |
C. H. D. Buys Ballot Life story
Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named. He was first chairman of the International Meteorological Organization, the organization that would become the World Meteorological Organization.