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English meteorologist
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Male
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4 March 1854(Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands)
Death:
23 March 1945(London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom)
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Biography
Introduction
Sir William Napier Shaw FRS, (March 4, 1854 – March 23, 1945), was a British meteorologist. He introduced the air pressure unit millibar, as well as the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes.
Biography
Shaw was born in Birmingham. He studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Cambridge. At the latter institution, he later, between 1877 and 1906, taught physics. In 1891, he was elected to the Royal Society. In 1915 he was knighted, and in 1923 he was awarded a Royal Medal.
In 1915, he developed the tephigram. Shaw also studied air pollution, publishing his book The Smoke Problem of Great Cities in 1925.
Shaw died in London.