George Hadley
Lawyer, Deceased Person
1685 – 1768
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Who was George Hadley?
George Hadley was an English lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the Trade Winds are sustained. As a key factor in ensuring that European sailing vessels reached North American shores, understanding the Trade Winds was becoming a matter of great importance at the time. Hadley was intrigued by the fact that winds which should by all rights have blown straight north had a pronounced westerly flow, and it was this mystery he set out to solve.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1685
London - Siblings
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Jun 28, 1768
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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