George Hadley

George Hadley was an English lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the Trade Winds are sustained, which is now named in his honor as Hadley circulation. As a key factor in ensuring that European sailing vessels reached North American shores, understanding the Trade Winds was becoming a matter of great importance at the time. Hadley was intrigued by the fact that winds which should by all rights have blown straight north had a pronounced westerly flow, and it was this mystery he set out to solve.

Hadley was born in London, England to George Hadley and Katherine FitzJames. He had an unremarkable childhood, and was eclipsed in his early years by his older brother John Hadley , the inventor of the octant . With John and his other brother Henry, George had constructed effective Newtonian telescopes.

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