José Pinto Peixoto
A statue of Peixoto at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon
Born(1922-11-09)9 November 1922
Miuzela, Almeida, Portugal
Died6 December 1996(1996-12-06) (aged 74)
NationalityPortuguese
OccupationMeteorologist

José Pinto Peixoto (November 9, 1922 – December 6, 1996) was a Portuguese meteorologist. As a part of Victor Starr's research group, including Abraham H. Oort and Ed Lorenz, and then later as director of the Geophysical Institute de Luis at the University of Lisbon, he contributed to theories of the global atmospheric circulation. [1]

Peixoto is best known for his textbook, Physics of Climate, written in conjunction with Oort.[2]

Career Honors[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Jose Pinto Peixoto (1922-1996)". Science in Portugal. Centro Virtual Camoes. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 Peixoto, José P.; Oort, Abraham H. (1992). The Physics of Climate (3rd ed.). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-88318-712-8.


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