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Tag: Kurt Vonnegut

The Smell of Tornadoes

April 20, 2010 Stephen Drew

“The Smell of Tornadoes,” Howard G. Altschule and Bernard Vonnegut, Weatherwise, vol. 50, no. 2, 1997, pp. 24–5. Vonnegut, older brother of and inspiration to the novelist Kurt Vonnegut, was awarded the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in meteorology for his 1975 report, “Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed.” This 1997 paper says [AIR […]

Ig Nobel, Research NewsBernard Vonnegut, Chickens, Kurt Vonnegut, scents, Sulfur, Tornadoes
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