Vilhelm Bjerknes

Name: Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes

Born: March 14, 1862, in Christiania, Norway

Death: April 9, 1951 (Age: 89)

Computer-related contributions

• Norwegian physicist and meteorologist.
• Helped found the modern practice of weather forecasting.

Significant publications

• Application of Line Integral Theorems to the Hydrodynamics of Terrestrial and Cosmic Vortices (1937).
• Lectures on physical hydrodynamics (1924).
• Dynamic Meteorology and Hydrography (1911).
• Fields of Force: A course of lectures in mathematical physics, etc (1906).
• The Dynamic Principle of Circulatory Movements in the Atmosphere (1900).

Honors and awards

• Royal Society Fellow (1936).
• Elected a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1936).
• Elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1905).
• Crater Bjerknes on the Moon and Mars are named in his honor.