Physicist Amos Emerson Dolbear is most famous for a small report he published in an 1897 issue of the American Naturalist that included these words: "The rate of [a cricket's] chirp seems to be entirely determined by temperature and this to such a degree that one may easily compute the temperature when the number of chirps per minute is known." This came to be known as Dolbear's Law.
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Austin Jesse Mitchell
April 22, 2019
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