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HENRY NEWTON DICKSON, born in Edinburgh in 1866, studied at the University of Edinburgh and came under the influence of the remarkable activities in experimental physics, meteorology, and oceanography directed by P. G. Tait and G. Chrystal in the University and by A. Buchan and John Murray outside. Like many other Edinburgh students of the later eighties of the last century Dickson seized the opportunity of acting as volunteer assistant in the work of the Challenger Commission, the Scottish Marine Station, and the Ben Nevis Observatory, and by this practical training in physiography he was fitted. to take up the reviving study of geography on a basis of sound physical science. Thus, while his researches dealt exclusively with the special fields of meteorology and oceanography, his appointments were mainly in the teaching or the application of geography in its wider aspects.
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M., H. Dr. H. N. Dickson, C.B.E. Nature 109, 525 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109525a0
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