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Hurd Curtis Willett

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Willett married Dorothy Bachman Lloyd and had three daughters and two sons. He died in West Concord, Massachusetts, after suffering a stroke.
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Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Willett grew up on a farm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a B.S. degree from
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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in 1924, then worked at the U.S. Weather Bureau, and earned a doctorate in meteorology from
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Paper published by Hurd C Willet in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences May 1968.
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techniques and widely known for his attempts at very long-range forecasting.
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This biographical article about a climatologist or meteorologist is a
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Providence, Rhode Island
West Concord, Massachusetts
Princeton University
George Washington University
Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal
Meteorology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis
meteorologist
weather forecasting
Princeton University
George Washington University
Bergen School of Meteorology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weather Bureau
American Meteorological Society
Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Royal Meteorological Society
Association of American Geographers
American Geophysical Union
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sigma Xi
Phi Beta Kappa
Professor H.C. Willett Dies
Princeton alumni memorial
Hurd C. Willett papers
How to use archival material
The New York Times obituary

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