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Bjerknes, J. (Jacob Aall Bonnevie), 1897-1975

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Personal name headingBjerknes, J. (Jacob Aall Bonnevie), 1897-1975
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Variant(s)Bjerknes, Jacob, 1897-1975
Associated countryUnited States Sweden
Birth date18971102
Death date19750707
Place of birthStockholm (Sweden)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activityEducation, Higher Meteorology
AffiliationUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Meteorologists
Found inOn the theory of cyclones, 1944?: title page (J. Bjerknes)
OCLC, July 27, 2015 (access pts.: Bjerknes, J. (Jacob Aall Bonnevie), 1897-1975; Bjerknes, Jacob; Bjerknes, Jacob, 1897-; Bjerknes, Jacob, 1897-1975; Bjerknes, Jacob A.B.; usage: J. Bjerknes)
Wikipedia, viewed July 27, 2015 (Jacob Bjerknes; Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes; b. Nov. 02, 1897, in Stockholm, Sweden; d. July 07, 1975, in Los Angeles, Calif.; Norwegian-American meteorologist; father was meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes; grandfather was noted Norwegian mathematician and physicist, Carl Anton Bjerknes)
Online Archive of California, finding aid for the Jakob Bjerknes papers, ca. 1900-1988, viewed July 27, 2015 (Jakob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes (1897-1975) was a professor of meteorology at UCLA (1940-1965); founded UCLA's Atmospheric Sciences Department; his research work focused on the importance of atmospheric fronts and initial formulation of polar front model, and global changes in the atmosphere)
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