Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Willett grew up on a farm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Weather Bureau, and earned a doctorate in meteorology from George Washington University (GWU) in 1929.

Willett won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study then burgeoning polar front theory, what became known as the Bergen School of Meteorology, in Norway.

In 1951 he received a plaque from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) for Extraordinary Scientific Achievement.

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