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* 1966: Zdenek Sekera for his numerous contributions to the dynamics of the atmosphere, which comprise studies of waves at interfaces, of the dynamics of the atmospheric jet stream, and especially of the brightness and polarization of sky light in a scattering atmosphere which led to the extension and application of Chandrasekhar's general theory of radiative transfer to atmospheric problems.

This work led to the computation of tables by Sekera and his coworkers.

With the publication of these tables, in Chandrasekhar's words, ' The problem that was formulated by Rayleigh in 1871 has now at last found its complete solution.