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Syukuro Manabe
Known for his work in developing global climate models and simulating the Earth's climate system.
Reid Bryson
Often cited as the father of scientific climatology, he was one of the first to study human impact on climate change.
Svante Arrhenius
Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and was the first to calculate the impact of CO2 on Earth's climate, essentially founding the science of greenhouse gas-induced global warming.
Edward Lorenz
A meteorologist and a mathematician who founded chaos theory and introduced the concept of the 'Butterfly Effect' in meteorology.
Joanne Simpson
The first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology and contributed significantly to the study of cloud formation, convection, and severe storm systems in the tropics.
James Hansen
Known for his research in the field of climatology and his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of global warming.
Guy Stewart Callendar
Known for the Callendar effect, which asserts that global temperature increases are due to CO2 emissions from fuel combustion.
Alfred Wegener
Best known for proposing the theory of continental drift, which became the precursor to the theory of plate tectonics.
Jacob Bjerknes
Known for his contributions to meteorology, particularly for work on the dynamics of the atmosphere and his discovery of the mechanism of the El Niño phenomenon.
Milutin Milanković
Famous for developing a mathematical theory of climate based on the Earth's orbital changes known as Milankovitch cycles.
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