# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-bjerknes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:56:31.535Z

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name: "Jacob Bjerknes"
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description: "Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes was a Swedish-born Norwegian-American meteorologist. He is known for his key paper in which he pointed the dynamics of the polar front, mechanism for north–south heat transport and for which he was also awarded a doctorate from the University of Oslo."
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birthDate: "1897-11-02"
deathDate: "1975-07-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump