thumb|Bentley durante seu trabalho. Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley (9 de fevereiro, 1865 – 23 de dezembro, 1931), nascido em Jericho, Vermont, foi um dos mais conhecidos fotógrafos de flocos de neve.Probably the absolutely first photographer of snowflakes was Dr. Johann Heinrich Flögel (1834-1918) from Ahrensburg, Germany in 1879: http://www.shz.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/artikeldetail/article/111/wem-gehoert-die-erste-foto-flocke.html Ele desenvolveu um processo de capturar as partículas em um veludo negro de forma que conseguisse fortografá-las antes de elas derreterem. thumb|right|Fotos de flocos de neve por Wilson Bentley, circa 1902 thumb|Fotografia de 1890 Ele nasceu em 9 de fevereiro de 1865.
Ele conseguiu uma captura de 5.000 imagens de cristais de gelo durante a sua vida.Vermont First List http://www.lcbmetalsandglass.com/oneslist.htm "Historic Bentley snowflake photos for sale in US", BBC News, 22 January 2010
Ver também Neve Ukichiro Nakaya
Referências [JHS] Wilson Snowflake Bentley – Photographer of Snowflakes (Jericho Historical Society, 2004). Retrieved July 26, 2005. Martin, Jacqueline Briggs; Illustrated by Mary Azarian. Snowflake Bentley (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1998) ISBN 0-395-86162-4. Moreno, Fred. 'Wilson Bentley: The Man Who Studied Snowflakes', Update (New York: New York Academy of Sciences, June/July/August 2005) pp. 8-9.
Bibliografia Thompson, Jean M., Illustrated by Bentley, Wilson A. Water Wonders Every Child Should Know (Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1913) Bentley, Wilson A. The Guide to Nature (1922) Bentley, Wilson A. 'The Magic Beauty of Snow and Dew', National Geographic (January 1923) Bentley, Wilson A.; Humphreys, William J. Snow Crystals (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1931) Bentley, Wilson A. "Snow", Encyclopædia Britannica: Vol. 20 (14th ed., 1936; pp. 854–856) Knight, N. (1988) "No two alike?" Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 69(5):496
Literatura Blanchard, Duncan. The Snowflake Man, A Biography of Wilson A. Bentley," (Blacksburg, VA: McDonald and Woodward, 1998) ISBN 0-939923-71-8. Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. "Snowflake Bentley," (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998) ISBN 0-395-86162-4 (a children's biography of 'Willie' Bentley illustrated with woodcuts hand tinted with watercolors by Mary Azarian. Awarded the Caldecott Medal.) Stoddard, Gloria May. "Snowflake Bentley: Man of Science, Man of God." (Shelburne, VT: New England Press, 1985) ISBN 0-933050-31-3 (Originally published in 1979 by Concordia Publishing House, ISBN 0-570-03620-8).
Ligações externas
Snowflake Bentley.com Bentley Snow Crystal Collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science
Inventory of Wilson A. Bentley Photographs, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library Inventory of Wilson A. Bentley Photographs, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Photography Initiative, click! photography changes everything project story on Wilson A. Bentley
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