John Aitken (meteorologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Aitken (meteorologist)

Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1839

Place of Birth: Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 14-Nov-1919

Profession: engineer, physicist, inventor, meteorologist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

For others similarly named, see the John Aitken navigation pageJohn Aitken, FRS, FRSE (18 September 1839 – 14 November 1919) was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer.
He was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science, who built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere, a koniscope.