Chapman Determines the Lunar Atmospheric Tide at Moderate Latitudes
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Physics, Physicists, Earth Sciences, Geology, Geologists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History
- Geographical Location: London
- Date: 1935
Article abstract: Chapman determined the lunar air tide, which is the effect of the moon’s gravitation on the earth’s atmosphere.
Summary of Event
Sydney Chapman, an applied mathematician and geophysicist, after professor-ships in Manchester, London, and Oxford, was named in 1951 as the Advisory Scientific Director and Professor of Geophysics at the University of Alaska, and in 1955, the Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Chapman was a prolific producer and contributor to a greater...
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