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3 unusual facts about William Ferrel


C. H. D. Buys Ballot

The contrast with his American contemporary, William Ferrel, who discovered Buys-Ballot's law slightly earlier, is striking.

William Ferrel

Ferrel improved upon Hadley's theory by recognizing an until then overlooked mechanism.

Hadley's erroneous reasoning had been in terms of a tendency to conserve linear momentum, as air mass travels from north to south or from south to north.



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