John Aitken
Physicist, Academic
1839 – 1919
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Who was John Aitken?
John Aitken FRS FRSE was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer. He was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science, who built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere, a koniscope.
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