Atlas, David, 1924-2015
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- Atlas, David, 1924-
Additional Information
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
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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