Irving P. Krick | |
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 Krick in 1935 | |
| Born | 1906  San Francisco (United States) |
| Died | 20 June 1996 (aged 89–90) Pasadena (United States) |
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| Occupation | Meteorologist |
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Irving P. Krick (1906 – June 20, 1996) was an American meteorologist and inventor, the founding professor of Department of Meteorology at California Institute of Technology (1933–1948), one of the U.S. Air Force meteorologists who provided forecasts for the Normandy Landings in 1944, a controversial pioneer of long-term forecasting and cloud seeding, and "a brilliant American salesman"[1] who in 1938 started the first private weather business in the United States.[2]
- ^ Cox 2002, p. 192.
- ^ Prophets for Profit, Time magazine, April 5, 1957