Tetsuya Fujita

Tetsuya Fujita

Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (藤田 哲 也 Fujita Tetsuya, October 23, 1920 to November 19, 1998) was a severe storm researcher of the twentieth century. He was born in Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka prefecture (Japan), studied at the Kyushu Technological Institute and was an associate professor there until 1953 when he was invited to the University of Chicago once a professor at that university showed interest in his research. At the University of Chicago, he conducted research on severe electrical storms, tornadoes, hurricanes and typhoons, revolutionizing the knowledge of these phenomena until then.

Fujita is recognized as a great meteorological investigator, but also for having developed the Fujita scale that describes the intensity of the tornado and links the damage it causes with wind speed.

Fujita's most well-known contributions were in the investigation of tornadoes, which is why his colleagues called him "Mr. Tornado."

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