Dr. Bernard Vonnegut was an American atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain. He is the older brother of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his B.S. in chemistry (1936) and Ph.D. in physical chemistry (1939) there. Wikipedia
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Dr. Vonnegut became fascinated with science when he was young, and his curiosity about the world around him continued for the rest of his life. Although he was initially educated as a chemist, his interests ranged far beyond, into meteorology, cloud phys www.atmos.albany.edu/deas/bvonn/bvonnegut.html