Ragnar Fjørtoft

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1913 – 1998

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Who was Ragnar Fjørtoft?

Ragnar Fjørtoft was an internationally-recognized Norwegian meteorologist. He was part of a Princeton, New Jersey team that in 1950 performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic computer. He was also a professor of meteorology at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

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Born
Aug 1, 1913
Oslo
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Died
May 28, 1998
Oslo

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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