C. H. D. Buys Ballot
Dutch physicist
Died when: 72 years 116 days (867 months)Star Sign: Libra
Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbœys ˈbɑlɔt];October 10, 1817 – February 3, 1890) was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named.
He was first chairman of the International Meteorological Organization, the organization that would become the World Meteorological Organization.
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