Henry Piddington
Scientist, Author
1797 – 1858
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Who was Henry Piddington?
Henry Piddington was an English scientist and merchant captain in East India and China who coined the name cyclone for tropical storms, referring to a storm that blew a freighter in circles in Mauritius in February 1845.
Piddington also wrote many scientific papers about geology, botany, mineralogy, and meteorology in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
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