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Peter Honey

By Peter Honey (June 2006 Issue)
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I have always been intrigued by the way humans put things into categories.  Everything from pencils to illnesses, from plants to prisons get carefully categorised.  Evan snow gets the treatment: the first classification scheme for snowflakes, devised in 1954 by physicist Ukichiro Nakaya, proposed 41 categories. Then, in 1966, two meterologists, Magono and Lee, expanded it to 80 types. Any advance on 80?  I'm sure there will be.

 

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