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4 unusual facts about Väisälä


Kaisa Miettinen

# On December 14, 2009, she was awarded the Väisälä Award of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in the field of Mathematics for her research achievements.

Väisälä

Brunt–Väisälä frequency, the frequency at which a vertically displaced parcel will oscillate within a statically stable environment

Vilho Väisälä (1889–1969), Finnish meteorologist and physicist, founder of Vaisala

Schmidt-Väisälä camera, an astronomical telescope intended for wide-field photographic work


T. J. Kukkamäki

He defended his doctoral thesis in University of Turku in 1933 on the metrology of length by means of the Väisälä comparator.


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