James Murdoch Austin

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1915 – 2000

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Who was James Murdoch Austin?

James Murdoch Austin was a New Zealand American meteorologist. He was notable for his pioneering modeling of the meteorology of air pollution, especially that of smokestack particulates. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of the pioneer of chaos theory and early practitioner of numerical weather prediction, Edward Norton Lorenz.

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Born
May 25, 1915
Dunedin
Nationality
  • New Zealand
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of New Zealand
  • University of Otago
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employment
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lived in
  • Dunedin
  • Concord
Died
Nov 26, 2000
Concord

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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