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Later Vilhelm Bjerknes became professor at Stockholm and continued developing his father's ideas but also making other significant advances, generalising results of Thomson and Helmholtz. He later accepted chairs at several universities (Christiania, Leipzig, Bergen and, in 1926, Oslo) by this time working on his other major topic of dynamic meteorology. Most of his major results in this area appear in On the Dynamics of the Circular Vortex with Applications to the Atmosphere and to Atmospheric Vortex and Wave Motion (1921).
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Vilhelm Bjerknes was elected to the Royal Society of London in 1933. You can see a history of the Royal Society and a list of the members among the mathematicians in our archive.
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