Aitken, John

Aitken, John (1839-1919) Scottish physicist and meteorologist in Edinburgh, one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science. 

Aitken, A. C, Determinants and Matrices, John Wiley Sons, New York (1956). 

The first evidence of in situ particle formation in the atmosphere was provided by John Aitken at the end of the nineteenth century (Aitken 1897). He built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere. However, little progress was made in understanding what causes new particle formation or how widespread it might be for almost a century. In the 1990s the development of instruments capable of measuring the size distribution of particles as small as 3 nm led to the discovery that nucleation and growth of new particles is a rather common event in many areas around the world (Kulmala ct al. 2004). Areas where frequent nucleation bursts have been observed include... 

Taroni, R, Aitken, C., Garbolino, P. and Biedermann, A. Bayesian Networks and Probabilistic Inference in Forensic Science. John Wiley Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006. 

Aitken, J. (1923). In Knott, C.G. (Ed.), Collected Scientific Papers of John Aitken. Cambridge University Press, London, 591 pp. 

Source Aitken, C. G. G., and F. Taroni. Statistics and the Evaluation ofEvide)we for Forensic Scientists, 2d ed. Chichester, U.K. John Wiley and Sons, 2004, Section 4.2. 

John Keill], An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning, (1701), pp. 409-35 in George Aitken, The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot (Oxford, 1892). 

Aitken E A (1967), Corrosion behavior in Westbrook J H, Intermetallic Compounds, New York, John Wiley Sons, 491-516. 

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