Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Léon Teisserenc de Bort

French climatologist

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1855

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 02-Jan-1913

Profession: scientist, climatologist, meteorologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (5 November 1855 in Paris, France – 2 January 1913 in Cannes, France) was a French meteorologist and a pioneer in the field of aerology.
Together with Richard Assmann (1845-1918), he is credited as co-discoverer of the stratosphere, as both men announced their discovery during the same time period in 1902.
Teisserenc de Bort pioneered the use of unmanned instrumented balloons and was the first to identify the region in the atmosphere around 8-17 kilometers of height where the lapse rate reaches zero, known today as the tropopause.