Tetsuya Theodore Fujita was born on October 23, 1920 in Kitakyushu City, Japan. In Japan, he attended Meiji College of Technology to get a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and then Tokyo University to receive a Doctoral Degree. After graduating from Tokyo University, he moved to the United States and joined the Meteorology department at the University of Chicago. Here, he spent his life researching tornadoes. Some of the things he discovered were the Fujita Scale, which estimates a tornado's intensity, and a downburst, which are patterns of intense winds from rain clouds, which hit the ground and fan out horizontally. He also introduced several concepts to the field of meteorology. He introduced the concept of the tornado "family", which is when a sequence of tornadoes spawn together, the "multiple vortex tornado", which is when a tornado has more than one vertex, and some terms such as "wall cloud" and "tail wall". Overall, Fujita contributed alot to the field of meteorology.
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