| Found in | Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Abbott Lawrence Rotch papers 1896-1912 (Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort; b. 1855; d. 1913; French meteorologist; discovered the stratosphere; pioneered the use of unmanned instrumented balloons; first to identify the region in the atmosphere around 8-17 kilometers of height where the lapse rate reaches zero, known today as the tropopause; chief of the Administrative Center of National Meteorology in Paris,1892-1896; later established a private meteorological observatory in Trappes near Versailles; conducted experiments with high-flying instrumented hydrogen balloons and was one of the first people to use such device)
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