Sir Charles William Blyth Normand
CIE (10 September 1889 – 25 October 1982) was a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
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meteorologist.
Career
Born in
Edinburgh, Normand was educated at the
Royal High School and studied
mathematics
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,
physics and
chemistry
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at
Edinburgh University. In 1913, he was appointed Imperial Meteorologist in
India. During the
First World War, he served as a meteorological officer with the
Indian Army in
Mesopotamia. On his return to India he conducted research into atmospheric humidity, and became Director-General of Observatories in India in 1927. He was a member of the
Indian Science Congress and a founder of the
Indian Academy of Sciences. He was knighted in 1945.
In 1946, Normand moved to
Oxford, where he studied atmospheric ozone. He served as Secretary of the International Ozone Commission from 1948 to 1959 and President of the
Royal Meteorological Society
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between 1951 and 1953, receiving their
Symons Gold Medal The Symons Gold Medal is awarded biennially by the Royal Meteorological Society for distinguished work in the field of meteorological science.
It was established in 1901 in memory of George James Symons, a notable British meteorologist.
Recipients ...
in 1944.
References
;Footnotes
;Bibliography
*C. D. Walshaw, ‘Normand, Sir Charles William Blyth (1889–1982)’
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 5 September 2007.
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1889 births
1982 deaths
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire
Knights Bachelor
People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh
Presidents of the Royal Meteorological Society
Scottish meteorologists
Scottish scientists
Scientists from Edinburgh