José Pinto Peixoto

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Pinto and the second or paternal family name is Peixoto.

José Pinto Peixoto (November 9, 1922 – December 6, 1996) was a Portuguese meteorologist. As a part of Victor Starr's research group, including Abraham H. Oort and Ed Lorenz, and then later as director of the Geophysical Institute de Luis at the University of Lisbon, he contributed to theories of the global atmospheric circulation. ^[2]

José Pinto Peixoto
A statue of Pinto Peixoto at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon
Born	(1922-11-09)9 November 1922 Miuzela, Almeida, Portugal
Died	6 December 1996(1996-12-06) (aged 74) Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Alma mater	University of Lisbon (MS, PhD) [1]
Scientific career
Fields	Meteorology
Institutions	University of Lisbon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Victor Starr

Peixoto is best known for his textbook, Physics of Climate, written in conjunction with Oort.^[3]

Career Honors^[2][3]

• Professor of Physics, Thermodynamics, and Theoretical Meteorology at the University of Lisbon
• Director of the Geophysical Institute de Luis
• President of the National Academy of Sciences of Lisbon
• Executive Committee Member of the European Science Foundation