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Carl-Gustaf Rossby
(28 Dec 1898 - 19 Aug 1957)
Swedish-American meteorologist who was the first to apply fluid mechanics to explain large-scale motions within the atmosphere.
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Science Quotes by Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1 quote)
Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own.
— Carl-Gustaf Rossby
National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs Vol. 66 (1995), 86-87.
See also:
- 28 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Rossby's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
