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Luke Howard

Biography

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Luke Howard - Sun

 

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Luke Howard - The Ends

 

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Luke Howard - A Faint Qualm for the Future

 

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Luke Howard - In Metaphor, Solace

Luke Howard, FRS was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society.
  • Personal 

  • Howard's ''On the modification of clouds'' 

  • Other cloud classification systems 

  • Later meteorological work 

  • Legacy