Oral history interview with Philip Duncan Thompson, 1986 Dec. 5.

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Oral history interview with Philip Duncan Thompson, 1986 Dec. 5.

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Thompson describes his career in numerical meteorology. He discusses attitudes in the 1940s, including those of Victor Starr and Jule Charney, toward the work of L. F. Richardson and the possibilities of predicting the weather numerically. He describes the Numerical Meteorology Project at the Institute for Advanced Study and the roles of Charney and John von Neumann in that project, partly from his first-hand experience there in 1946-47. Next he recounts the activities of the meteorology research group he organized at the Cambridge Air Force Research Center and the calculations they did in the early 1950s on electromechanical calculators and on an IBM 701.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Thompson was a numerical meteorologist. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip Duncan Thompson, 1986 Dec. 5. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63276387 Thompson (1922-1994) was a meteorologist and physicist. Internationally known theoretician in numerical weather prediction, atmospheric dynamics, and turbulence. Project director, Institute for Advanced Study, 1946-1947; chief Atmosphere Analysis Laboratory, Air Force Cambridge Re...