Lewis Fry Richardson
Lewis Fry Richardson was born on October 11 of the year 1881, to a quaker family in England. Both his parents, Catherine Fry and David Richardson, partook in the field of business. His parent's circumstances allowed Lewis to attend some of the most prestigious schools; this includes Newcastle Preparatory, Bootham School, Durham College of Science, and King's College, Cambridge. His influences in these various schools allowed Lewis to acquire a strong foundation in numerous fields of science. One influence in particular gave Lewis the drive to learn about meteorology; an encounter with a man named J Edmund Clark, due to his expertise in meteorology.
Lewis was not a man of single focus, for he has knowledge in many subjects. In fact, Lewis is a mathematician and a physicist. Having the experience in these fields allowed him to construct a goal: making weather forecast predictions based on mathematical algorithms. There, however, was one factor that quelled his process to proceed with his idea and that was the first World War, where he served as an ambulance driver in Europe.
This did not stop him, after his service he returned back to the lab to hand write equations based on the data he collected with his experiments. At Benson he looked at clouds and rain by using thermodynamics and radiation. He wrote a book on his finds that included every algorithm he solved. Another scientist disagreed with his work, but later on in 1993 a scientist named Lynch showed that Lewis's calculations had few errors and stated that it was "impressive" since he did everything by hand. He later had an idea to create a company that would be able to produce weather predictions around the clock. This was called the Forecast Factory, which included 65,000 people, each focusing on a section of the globe and figuring out the weather in that area. This was equivalent to using 100,000 super computers with powerful processing units.
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