Edgar W. Woolard
American meteorologist, planetary scientist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edgar William Woolard was an American meteorologist, mathematician and planetary scientist. He was born in El Paso, Texas and received his college education from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. During World War I, Woolard served in the U.S. Army. In 1919, he was employed at the U.S. Weather Bureau as an assistant meteorologist, where he would remain until 1928. He resigned to join the faculty of George Washington University as a mathematics instructor. Woolard was granted his Ph.D. from the university with a thesis titled, On the Geometrical Theory of Halos, published in 1929. His was one of the first doctorates ever to be awarded in what was then the newly emerging science of meteorology. In 1938 he returned to the U.S. Weather Bureau, where he worked until the end of World War II.
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