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PG.4 Wilson A. Bentley

PG.6 Achievements

PG.8 Legacy

PG.10 Death

PG.12 Cool Facts

PG.14 Glossary

PG.15 Index

PG.16 Sources

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Wilson A. Bentley

Wilson was born on February 9th,1865. He was born in Jericho, Vermont. As a teen Wilson began to grow more interested in snow crystals (snowflakes). He once had tried to draw what he saw through a microscope his mom gave him when he was fifteen. He soon attached a bellows camera to his compound microscope.

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Achievements

Wilson A. Bentley was said to be the first person on earth to take a picture of a snowflake. Not only was he a meteorologist, he was also photographer. He had children’s book written about him called Snowflake Bentley. He also captured more than 5,000 pictures of snowflakes.

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Legacy

Wilson Bentley (Snowflake Bentley) was a meteorologist and a photographer. There’s a museum in Jericho. There’s a field museum in Chicago that has pictures of him and from him.

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