Tim Samaras,
a longtime storm chaser for the Discovery Channel who died with his son Paul and partner Carl Young on Friday night in a potent Oklahoma twister, was certainly a celebrity, but also very much a scientist.
Not exact matches
Longtime chasers Roger Edwards and Tim Vazquez, who maintain an online forum dedicated to
storm tracking, estimate that there are only 100 or so enthusiasts who chase year after year.
In May, veteran
storm chaser Tim Samaras — along with
longtime colleague Carl Young and son Paul Samaras — was killed by a twister that tore through Oklahoma, killing 22 people.