Weather forecasting G. Harold Noyes in 1931. The world's first televised weather forecasts, including the use of weather maps, were experimentally broadcast by the BBC in 1936. This was brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. George Cowling gave the first weather forecast while being televised in front of the map in 1954. In America, experimental television forecasts were made by James C Fidler in Cincinnati in either 1940 or 1947 on the DuMont Television Network. In the late 1970s and early 80s, John Coleman, the first weatherman on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, pioneered the use of on-screen weather satellite
Thomas Cowling stars and classified the modes of non-radial oscillation of the body of a star, the basis of the field of helioseismology. Cowling became an Assistant Lecturer at Swansea in 1933. He was subsequently a lecturer at the University of Dundee (1937–38) and the University of Manchester (1938–45) before being appointed Professor at the University of Wales, Bangor (now Bangor University). In 1948 Cowling was appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds in succession to Professor Selig Brodetsky. Cowling retired from his chair at Leeds in 1970 with the title Emeritus Professor. Cowling was elected a Fellow of