Collection: Hurd C. Willett papers (original) (raw)

Hurd Curtis Willett, 1903-1992, BS 1924, Princeton University; PhD. in meteorology, 1929, George Washington University, worked for the US Weather Bureau from 1924 to 1929. He joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1929 as an instructor in meteorology. He was appointed assistant professor in 1929, associate professor in 1935, and professor in 1945. In 1967 he retired from teaching and continued his research as professor emeritus until 1988. Most of his research before 1940 was on frontal and air mass analysis and its application to short-range weather prediction; after that his research focused on long-range weather forecasting, including the study of climatic fluctuations, variable solar influences, and cyclical patterns behind weather conditions.