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Lewis Fry Richardson
(11 Oct 1881 - 30 Sep 1953)
English mathematician, meteorologist, physicist and psychologist whose study of more detailed measurement of coastlines was a precursor to fractals. He not only applied modern mathematical techniques to weather forecasting, but also, as a Quaker pacifistand, used mathematical methods in the study of the causes of wars as a means to prevent them. He was uncle of the actor, Sir Ralph Richardson.
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Science Quotes by Lewis Fry Richardson (2)
Big whorls have little whorls
Which feed on their velocity
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity.
[Concerning atmospheric turbulence.]
Which feed on their velocity
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity.
[Concerning atmospheric turbulence.]
— Lewis Fry Richardson
Weather Prediction by Numerical Process (1922), 66. Quoted in Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1977), 402.
See also: | Atmosphere (18)
Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream.
— Lewis Fry Richardson
Weather Prediction by Numerical Process (1922), 66. Quoted in Peter Lynch, The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction (2006), vii.
