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Napier Shaw
Sir William Napier Shaw FRS, (March 4, 1854 - March 23, 1945), was a British meteorologist. He introduced the air pressure unit ''millibar'', as well as the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes. ==Biography== Shaw was born in Birmingham. He studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Cambridge. At the latter institution, he later, between 1877 and 1906, taught physics. In 1891, he was elected to the Royal Society.〔 In 1915 he was knighted, and in 1923 he was awarded a Royal Medal. In 1909, he introduced the millibar unit, which was internationally adopted in 1929. In 1915, he developed the tephigram. Shaw also studied air pollution, publishing his book ''The Smoke Problem of Great Cities'' in 1925. Shaw died in London.
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