Background
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Willett grew up on a farm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Hurd Curtis Willett
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He graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery degree from Princeton University in 1924, then worked at the United States. Weather Bureau, and earned a doctorate in meteorology from George Washington University (GWU) in 1929.
Career
He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) faculty in 1929, where he headed the development and adoption of the polar front theory of five-day weather prediction by the Weather Bureau. He died in West Concord, Massachusetts, after suffering a stroke.
Achievements
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Willett won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study then burgeoning polar front theory, what became known as the Bergen School of Meteorology, in Norway. In 1951 he received a plaque from the American Meteorological Society (American Mathematical Society) for Extraordinary Scientific Achievement. This was the initial prize award of what is now known as the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Meda Willett was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AASC), the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), the Association of American Geographers (AAG), the American Geophysical Union (American Geophysical Union), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa.
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American