Buys Ballot Medal
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The Buys Ballot Medal is a prize given out by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. It was instituted in 1888 to honor the achievements of meteorologist C.H.D. Buys Ballot. The prize is awarded approximately every ten years to an individual that has made significant contributions to meteorology.
The recipients have been:
- 1893 – Julius von Hann, Austria
- 1903 – Richard Assman and Arthur Berson, Germany
- 1913 – Hugo von Hergesell, Germany
- 1923 – Sir Napier Shaw, United Kingdom
- 1933 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norway
- 1948 – Sverre Petterssen, Norway
- 1953 – Gustav Swoboda, Czech Republic
- 1963 – Eric Palmén, Finland
- 1973 – Joseph Smagorinsky, United States
- 1982 – Axel Wiin-Nielsen, Denmark
- 1995 – V. Ramanathan, United States
- 2004 – E.N. Lorenz, United States
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