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==Background== Bolin was born in [[Nyköping]], Sweden <ref name="rodhe">Rodhe, H. (1991). Bert Bolin and his scientific career, ''Tellus'' '''43AB''' (4), 3–7.</ref> and graduated from [[Uppsala University]] in 1946. He earned a master's degree in 1949 and a doctorate in 1956, both in meteorology, at [[Stockholm University]].<ref name="Obit"/> During his doctorate he spent a year in 1950 at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in Princeton, New Jersey, where he worked with [[Jule Charney]], [[John von Neumann]] and others on the first computerized weather forecast, using [[ENIAC]], the first electronic computer.<ref name=aboutBBCC>Bert Bolin Centre for Climate Research, [https://bolin.su.se/index.php/bert-bolin About Bert Bolin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207102927/https://bolin.su.se/index.php/bert-bolin |date=2018-12-07 }}, accessed 7 December 2018</ref> Bolin's marriage to Ulla Frykstrand ended in divorce in 1979; they had three children: Dan, Karina and Göran.<ref name="Obit"/> Bolin resided in [[Österskär]], northeast of [[Stockholm]] where he also died aged 82. He remained active until shortly before his death.
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