Napier Shaw

Shaw, Napier

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Sir William Napier Shaw (born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England) was a British meteorologist whose introduction of the millibar, a unit of measurement of air pressure, and the tephigram, a graphical representation of the first law of thermodynamics as applied to Earth’s atmosphere, contributed to the development of modern meteorology. Shaw taught physics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, from 1877-1906. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and in 1900 became secretary of the Meteorological Council, the governing body of the Meteorological Office. He instigated the reorganization of this office and served as director from 1905-20. He was knighted in 1915. From 1920-1924 he was the first professor of meteorology at the Royal College of Science of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. One of his more noteworthy works is the *Manual of Meteorology* (1926–31). Source: [Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napier-Shaw)

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Practical Physics
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Air Currents and the Laws of Ventilation
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The Drama of Weather
Representative edition published 1940
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The drama of weather
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The smoke problem of great cities
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The smoke problem of great cities
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Air and Its Ways
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Manual of meteorology
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Air Currents and the Laws of Ventilation: Lectures on the Physics of the Ventilation of ...
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Air Currents and the Laws of Ventilation: Lectures on the Physics of the ...
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Air currents and the laws of ventilation
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Practical physics
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Ventilation as a dynamical problem
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Report on the Work of the Committee Appointed by the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain to ...
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Practical Physics
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Practical Work at the Cavendish Laboratory
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Electricity, Electrometer Magnetism, and Electrolysis
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Air Currents and the Laws of Ventilation
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Forecasting Weather
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Smoke Problem of Great Cities
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Meteorological Glossary
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Manual of Meteorology
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Drama of Weather
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Selected meteorological papers
Representative edition published 1955
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