Roger Lhermitte

Roger M. Lhermitte (1920 to 2016) was a French meteorologist who pioneered the development of meteorological Doppler radar. Born in Ergal near Jouars-Pontchartrain, he studied at the University of Paris and wrote a doctoral thesis on the study of precipitation through the analysis of radar echoes of rain. He began at the French national weather service, then worked in North America from 1961, at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, the Sperry Rand Research Center, the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the Wave Propagation Laboratory in Boulder. His career ran from the 1950s until his death and produced more than one hundred publications and several patents on radar meteorology.