Alexander Buchan FRS FRSE was a Scottish meteorologist, oceanographer and botanist and is credited with establishing the weather map as the basis of modern weather forecasting. He also proposed the theory of Buchan Spells.
- Occupation
- librarian, meteorologist, botanist, editor
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 11, 1829
- Died
- May 13, 1907
