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People of Science with Brian Cox - Professor Joanna Haigh on Lewis Fry Richardson

4 mins watch 05 January 2020

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Joanna Haigh talks to Brian Cox about mathematician and physicist, Lewis Fry Richardson, and discusses his groundbreaking concept of a ‘weather forecasting factory’.

Find out more about Lewis Fry Richardson in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit:
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/people-of-science-lewis-fry-richardson/9wJyW_SXrfy8Lg

Special thanks to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain.

Archive credits:

Portrait of Lewis fry Richardson – © Godfrey Argent Studio

The Weather Forecasting factory © Stephen Conlin

Lewis Fry Richardson FAU personnel card © Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain

AMB 2 FAU delivering bread © Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain

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