Henry Piddington

English scientist and merchant captain (1797-1858) · Scientists · Died at 61

Henry Piddington was an English sea captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is particularly well known for his pioneering studies in meteorology of tropical storms and hurricanes.

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