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Alexander George McAdie was born on August 4, 1863 in New York City, and was the fourth son of Scottish parents, John and Anne (Sinclair) McAdie. His father, listed in city directories as a printer, had come to the United States in 1852.
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Alexander George McAdie was born on August 4, 1863 in New York City, and was the fourth son of Scottish parents, John and Anne (Sinclair) McAdie. His father, listed in city directories as a printer, had come to the United States in 1852.
Young McAdie attended New York public schools and the College of the City of New York, where he won two gold medals for excellence in English composition and studied atmospheric phenomena, such as electrical storms. He received the A. B. degree in 1881, at the age of seventeen. The Army Signal Service, which then handled weather matters for the federal government, was at that time seeking college graduates in science, and McAdie in January 1882 enlisted. After preliminary training at Fort Myer, Va. , he was sent to Harvard University, where he studied under such eminent physicists as John Trowbridge and Benjamin O. Peirce and formed a friendship with Abbott Lawrence Rotch, who in 1884 established the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory near Milton, Massachussets McAdie received A. M. degrees from his alma mater in 1884 and from Harvard in 1885.
For three years (1886 - 89) McAdie served as an assistant in the physical laboratory of the Signal Service in Washington, D. C. , a period interrupted by a winter's term (1887 - 88) at the weather station in St. Paul, Minn. He resigned in 1889 to teach physics and meteorology at Clark University, Worcester, Massachussets Two years later he returned to Washington to join the United States Weather Bureau, which had just been set up under civilian control, as meteorological physicist and assistant to the director. During his years there (1891 - 95) he also visited Rotch at the Blue Hill Observatory, where he experimented with the use of kites in obtaining meteorological data and studied the relation between atmospheric electricity and auroral phenomena. Because of political shifts, McAdie was transferred to the San Francisco office of the Weather Bureau in 1895, and except for several months (1898 - 99) spent as forecast official in the New Orleans office, he remained there for eighteen years. In 1903 he was appointed professor of meteorology and director of the California section of the Bureau's climate and crop service. He soon achieved distinction as a forecaster and became an authority on the climate of California. The earthquake of 1906 stimulated his interest in seismology, and he was one of the founders, in 1907, of the Seismological Society of the Pacific, a forerunner of the Seismological Society of America, of which he was president in 1915-16. McAdie left the Weather Bureau in 1913 to accept appointment as professor of meteorology at Harvard and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, which had become a part of Harvard University. He held both positions until his retirement in 1931. During World War I he served as a lieutenant commander in the navy, in charge of its aerographic section. He died of a coronary occlusion at Elizabeth City, Va. , at the age of eighty. Following cremation, his ashes were buried in Charlottesville, Va.
McAdie was one of the founders of the Seismological Society of the Pacific, a forerunner of the Seismological Society of America, of which he was president in 1915-16. He was also president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1912) and a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. Although McAdie made no historic contributions to meteorological science, he pioneered in the use of kites to explore the air at high altitudes, developed and patented devices to protect fruit from frost, studied the role of smoke in polluting the atmosphere, and wrote on the hazards of lightning on the ground and in the air. He published some four hundred papers; many of them, such as "Relativity and the Absurdities of Alice" (Atlantic Monthly, June 1921), were written for a lay audience and are characterized by imagination and lively humor. Mount McAdie in the Sierra Nevada range was named after him. The crater McAdie on the Moon is named after him. The Fleet Weather Center building in Norfolk, VA is named after him.
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McAdie was an Episcopalian in religion.
McAdie advocated standardization of the physical units employed in meteorological notation and urged the general adoption of the metric system.
a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
McAdie's writing was notable for its style and erudition. A man of great personal charm, he displayed in his writings his own love of life and appreciation for its natural wonders. After his retirement he moved to Hampton, Va.
On October 7, 1893, McAdie married Mary Randolph Browne of Edgehill, Va. They had no children.
