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Atlas, David, 1924-2015


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    • Atlas, David, 1924-

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    • Birth Date

        1924-05-25

    • Death Date

        2015-11-10

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: University of Maryland
        • Organization: United States Air Force
        • Organization: University of Chicago
        • Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.)
        • Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    • Birth Place

        Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

    • Associated Locale

        Washington Region

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      Meteorology


    • Occupation

      Meteorologist

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Atlas, David, 1924-

  • Sources

    • found: Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference (1987 : Boston, Mass.). Radar in meteorology, 1990:CIP t.p. (David Atlas) galley (Dept. of Meteorology, Univ. of Maryland; presently, independent consultant, Bethesda, Md.) data sheet (b. May 25, 1924)
    • found: LC data base, 1/22/90(hdg.: Atlas, David)
    • found: Wikipedia, Dec. 13, 2014(David Atlas; one of the pioneers of radar meteorology; born May 25, 1924 in Brooklyn, N.Y.; institution, U.S. Air Force, Univ. of Chicago, National Center for Atmospheric Research; NASA)
    • found: His LinkedIn page, Dec. 13, 2014(David Atlas; distinguished visiting scientist at NASA, Emeritus; Washington D.C. area)
    • found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 16, 2015(David Atlas, 91, a radar meteorologist whose research was crucial to the development of airborne weather radar and the NEXRAD system of Doppler weather radars used across the United States, died Nov. 10 [2015] in Silver Spring, Md.; Dr. Atlas was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn; from 1948 to 1966, he was chief of the weather radar branch at the now-defunct Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories in Massachusetts; professor at the University of Chicago from 1966 to 1972, when he became director of the atmospheric technology division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; from 1977 until his retirement in 1984, Dr. Atlas directed what was then the laboratory for atmospheric sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; moved from Bethesda to Silver Spring in 2002)

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  • Change Notes

    • 1990-01-26: new
    • 2015-12-16: revised

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