William Charles Redfield

William Redfield

William Charles Redfield (March 26, 1789 – February 12, 1857) was the first President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1843).[1][2][3][4][5][6]

At a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1854, Mr. Redfield mentioned a storm-path in which no less than seventy odd vessels had been wrecked, dismasted, or damaged.[source: Maury's PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA, AND ITS METEOROLOGY p. 66]

William Charles Redfield is known in meteorology for his observation of the directionality of winds in hurricanes [7] (being among the first to propose that hurricanes are large circular vortexes,[8] though John Farrar had made similar observations six years earlier), though his interests were varied and influential.

Redfield organized and was a member of the first expedition to Mount Marcy in 1837; he was the first to guess that Marcy was the highest peak in the Adirondacks, and therefore in New York. Mount Redfield was named in his honor by Verplanck Colvin.

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