| LC control no. | n 89117318 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Atlas, David, 1924-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Atlas, David, 1924- |
| Associated place | Cambridge (Mass.) Chicago (Ill.) Greenbelt (Md.) Washington Region |
| Located | Silver Spring (Md.) Bethesda (Md.) |
| Birth date | 1924-05-25 |
| Death date | 2015-11-10 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Silver Spring (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Meteorology |
| Affiliation | University of Maryland United States Air Force University of Chicago National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.) National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Profession or occupation | Meteorologist |
| Found in | Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference (1987 : Boston, Mass.). Radar in meteorology, 1990: CIP t.p. (David Atlas) galley (Dept. of Meteorology, Univ. of Maryland; presently, independent consultant, Bethesda, Md.) data sheet (b. May 25, 1924) LC data base, 1/22/90 (hdg.: Atlas, David) Wikipedia, Dec. 13, 2014 (David Atlas; one of the pioneers of radar meteorology; born May 25, 1924 in Brooklyn, N.Y.; institution, U.S. Air Force, Univ. of Chicago, National Center for Atmospheric Research; NASA) His LinkedIn page, Dec. 13, 2014 (David Atlas; distinguished visiting scientist at NASA, Emeritus; Washington D.C. area) Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 16, 2015 (David Atlas, 91, a radar meteorologist whose research was crucial to the development of airborne weather radar and the NEXRAD system of Doppler weather radars used across the United States, died Nov. 10 [2015] in Silver Spring, Md.; Dr. Atlas was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn; from 1948 to 1966, he was chief of the weather radar branch at the now-defunct Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories in Massachusetts; professor at the University of Chicago from 1966 to 1972, when he became director of the atmospheric technology division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; from 1977 until his retirement in 1984, Dr. Atlas directed what was then the laboratory for atmospheric sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; moved from Bethesda to Silver Spring in 2002) |
| Associated language | eng |
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