Battan, Louis J.
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Name (Latin)
Battan, Louis J.
Other forms of name
Battan, Louis J., 1923-1986
Date of birth
1923-02-09
Date of death
1986-10-29
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference (1987 : Boston, Mass.). Radar in meteorology, 1990:CIP galley (Dr. Louis J. Battan; b. Feb. 9, 1923; d. Oct. 29, 1986)
- His Radar meteorology, 1959.
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1923; Ph.D.)
- LCN; dates from note
Wikipedia description:
Louis Joseph Battan (February 9, 1923 – October 29, 1986) was an American atmospheric scientist who received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1953, where he was hired to work in the field of the physics of clouds and precipitation. In 1958 he was appointed professor of meteorology and associate director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He was a pioneer in cloud physics and radar meteorology. Battan was born in the New York City and grew up in Brooklyn. He was the second of the four sons born to Annibale and Luisa Battan, devout Catholics who immigrated to the United States from the village of Vigo in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria.
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