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Document Title: Philip D. Thompson (DI01979)
Description: Appointed in 1960, Thompson was the first Associate Director of NCAR as well as the first director of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Science and of the Advanced Study Program. He worked with Walter Orr Roberts to recruit the best minds of modern science to the newly created NCAR. As a scientist, he was an internationally known theoretician in atmospheric dynamics, numerical weather prediction, and turbulence. He was one of a very few scientists who first recognized that large-scale atmospheric motions possess the characteristics of turbulence and, thus, that there is an inherent limit in predicting the atmosphere in advance. This portrait was taken in 1976.
Creditline: copyright University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Keywords: 1976,DI01979,history,people,Philip Thompson,scientist
Filename: DI01979.tif