Charles Fitzhugh Talman

Charles Fitzhugh Talman was an American meteorologist, writer, and librarian born in Detroit in 1874 and active in the U.S. Weather Bureau until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1936. He is especially remembered as the Weather Bureau's librarian, where he spent decades building, organizing, and sharing meteorological knowledge.

Talman had a gift for explaining science clearly. Alongside his library work, he wrote books such as Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere and Our Weather, as well as a long stream of short popular notes and articles that helped general readers understand storms, climate, and the everyday behavior of the sky.

His reputation lasted well beyond his lifetime. Later tributes from meteorological and NOAA sources describe him not just as a careful bibliographer, but as a major popularizer of weather science whose work helped preserve the history of meteorology for future researchers.