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British Meteorological Society
The Royal Meteorological Society is a long-established institution that promotes academic and public engagement in weather and climate science. Fellows of the Society must possess relevant qualifications, but Associate Fellows can be lay enthusiasts. Its Quarterly Journal is one of the world's leading sources of original research in the atmospheric sciences. The chief executive officer is Liz Bentley. Constitution The Royal Meteorological Society traces its origins back to 3 April 1850 when the British Meteorological Society was formed as "a society the objects of which should be the advancement and extension of meteorological science by determining the laws of climate and of meteorological phenomena in general". Along with nine others, including James Glaisher, John Drew, Edward Joseph Lowe, The Revd Joseph Bancroft Reade, and Samuel Charles Whitbread, Dr John Lee, an astronomer, of Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire founded in the library of his house the Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Executive Officer
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution. CEOs find roles in a range of organizations, including public and private corporations, non-profit organizations and even some government organizations (notably state-owned enterprises). The CEO of a corporation or company typically reports to the board of directors and is charged with maximizing the value of the business, which may include maximizing the share price, market share, revenues or another element. In the non-profit and government sector, CEOs typically aim at achieving outcomes related to the organization's mission, usually provided by legislation. CEOs are also frequently assigned the role of main manager of the organization and the highest-ranki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society
The ''Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of meteorology published eight times per year. It was established in 1871 as ''Bibliography of Meteorological Literature'', obtaining its current name in 1873. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Meteorological Society. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences and the Science Citation Index. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2021 impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ... of 7.237, ranking it 11th out of 94 journals in the category "Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences". References External links * {{Official website, http://onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert James Mann
Robert James Mann (1817–1886) was an English physician and science writer. Life The son of James Mann of Norwich, he was born there in 1817, and educated for the medical profession at University College, London. At the hospital connected with the college he acted as dresser to Robert Liston. He practised for some years in Norfolk, first in Norwich, and then at Buxton. In 1853 he was in poor health, and he concentrate more on writing. In 1854 he graduated M.D. in the University of St. Andrews, and in 1857, on the invitation of John Colenso, he left England for Natal, where he stayed for nine years. Two years after his arrival, Mann was appointed the first superintendent of education for Natal, and set up a system of primary education. He also took up meteorology. In 1866 he returned from Natal with an appointment from the legislative council as emigration agent for the colony; and for the rest of his life lived in or near London. For three years Mann was president of the Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Tripe
John William Tripe (26 February 1821 – 7 April 1892) was an English physician of the Victorian era and President of the Royal Meteorological Society (1871–72). Tripe was born in London in 1821, one of 11 children born to Mary ''née'' Broad (1795–1874) and Dr John Tripe (1789–1841). He was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School before studying medicine at the London Hospital, where he was awarded two gold medals. He became a Licentiate of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (LSA) in 1843 before making further studies in medicine at the University of St Andrews from where he graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1846. He became MRCS (England) in 1848 and MRCP (Edinburgh) in 1879. He became a Licentiate in Midwifery (LM) in 1853. Tripe was Medical Officer of Health for Hackney from 1856 to his death in 1892. He married Elizabeth Thomson on 10 October 1850; she died in 1860. In 1864 he married Grace Wright (1841–1901), with whom he had two children: Mary Grace Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vincent Walker
Charles Vincent Walker FRS (20 March 1812 – 24 December 1882) was an English electrical engineer and publisher, a major influence on the development of railway telecommunications, he was also the first person to send a submarine telegraph signal. Life Born Marylebone, Middlesex son to Vincent and Ann ''née'' Blake, Walker's elementary education and engineering training are uncertain. However, by 1838 he had acquired some knowledge of electricity and had helped to found the London Electrical Society. Walker was secretary and treasurer of the Society in its early days and edited its ''Proceedings'' from 1841 to 1843. He also founded the '' Electrical Magazine'', though only two volumes appeared in 1841–3.McConnell (2004) Also in 1841, Walker worked on the ''Manual of Electricity, Magnetism and Meteorology'' which formed part of Dionysius Lardner's ''Cabinet Cyclopedia''. Walker also published his own book on ''Electrotype Manipulation'', followed by his ''Electric Telegraph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brooke (surgeon)
Charles Brooke FRMS FRS (30 June 1804 – 17 May 1879) was an English surgeon and inventor. Surgical career Brooke, son of the well-known mineralogist, Henry James Brooke, was born 30 June 1804. His early education was carried on at Chiswick, under Dr. Turner. After this he was entered at Rugby School in 1819 and St John's College, Cambridge, where he remained five years. He was twenty-third wrangler and B.A. 1827, B.M. 1828, and M.A. in 1853. During a part of this period he studied medicine, and his professional education was completed at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He passed the Royal College of Surgeons examination on 3 September 1834, and became a fellow of that institution 26 August 1844. He lectured for one or two sessions on surgery at Dermott's School, and afterwards held positions on the surgical staff of the Metropolitan Free Hospital and the Westminster Hospital, which latter appointment he resigned in 1869. He is known as the inventor of the ''bead suture,'' which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dundas Thomson
Dr Robert Dundas Thomson FRSE FRS FRCP FCS (21 September 1810 – 17 August 1864) was a British physician and chemist and a pioneer of public sanitation. He worked as an academic, medical officer of health and author. Life He was the son of Rev James Thomson, minister of Eccles in Berwickshire, and his wife Elizabeth Skene, daughter of James Skene of Aberdeen, uncle of James Skene of Rubislaw. He was born at Eccles manse on 21 September 1810. He was educated nearby at Duns Grammar School. He studied for the medical profession in Edinburgh and Glasgow. In Glasgow he studied chemistry under his uncle Thomas Thomson, then professor there. He graduated ChM at Glasgow in 1831. In 1840 he was at Giessen under Justus Liebig. He obtained his doctorate (MD) from Glasgow University. After making a voyage to India and China as assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, Thomson settled as a physician in London about 1835, and took part in the establishment of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Beardmore
Nathaniel Beardmore (19 March 1816 – 24 August 1872) was a British civil engineer known for his textbook on hydraulic engineering, and his work on water projects associated with the River Lea. Life and career Beardmore was born on 19 March 1816 in Nottingham, England. He began his professional education as a pupil to Plymouth architect George Wightwick, and subsequently apprenticed to the well-known civil engineer James Meadows Rendel (1799-1856). He later became a partner in Rendel's engineering practice, for which he prepared surveys and drawings of railways, roads, bridges and harbors, worked on water supplies in both Scotland and England, and to a lesser extent worked on railroad projects. His partnership with Rendel ceased amicably in 1848, and Beardmore in 1850 became the sole engineer for the drainage and navigation works on the River Lea.Dobson (1885), p. 16; Forrest (1873), pp. 256–264; McConnell (2000), pp. 325–327.) In 1854 he was awarded a Telford Medal by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sopwith (geologist)
Thomas Sopwith FRS (3 January 1803 – 16 January 1879) was an English mining engineer, teacher of geology and local historian. Early life The son of Jacob Sopwith (1770–1829), by his wife Isabella, daughter of Matthew Lowes, Thomas was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His father was a builder and cabinet-maker; Sopwith maintained links with the family furniture and joinery business throughout his life. Initially an illustrator of antiquities, he then took up land and mineral surveying, and subsequently described himself as a civil engineer. He invented, and the family firm manufactured, an ingenious type of desk with all its drawers secured by a single lock, the 'monocleid', which won a prize at the 1851 Exhibition; an improved levelling stave; and wooden geological teaching models. Career Mining engineer In 1824 Sopwith completed an apprenticeship with his father, and took employment as a surveyor. He worked closely with Richard Grainger in the redevelopment of Newcastle Upon T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson FRS HFRSE FRSA DCL (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century. Life Robert was born in Willington Quay near Wallsend, Northumberland, the son of George Stephenson and his wife, Frances Henderson. The family moved to Killingworth, where Robert was taught at the local village school. Robert attended the middle-class Percy Street Academy in Newcastle and at the age of fifteen was apprenticed to the mining engineer Nicholas Wood. He left before he had completed his three years to help his father survey the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Robert spent six months at Edinburgh University before working for three years as a mining engineer in Colombia. When he returned his father was building the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Leach (climatologist)
George Leach may refer to: * George Leach (musician) (born 1975), Canadian musician and actor * George Leach (cricketer) (1881–1945), English cricketer * George E. Leach (1876–1955), United States Army general and mayor of Minneapolis See also * George Leech (other) {{hndis, Leach, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoscience Data Journal
Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spheres, namely biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere. Earth science can be considered to be a branch of planetary science, but with a much older history. Earth science encompasses four main branches of study, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, and the biosphere, each of which is further broken down into more specialized fields. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches to Earth sciences. It is also the study of Earth and its neighbors in space. Some Earth scientists use their knowledge of the planet to locate and develop energy and mineral resources. Others study the impact of human activity on Earth's environment, and design methods to protect the planet. Some use their knowledge about Earth processes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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