[6] "While in Berlin, he made numerous trips to bomb shelters for safety, an experience he likened many times to Kurt Vonnegut’s descriptions of Dresden in Slaughterhouse Five.

The subject of his thesis work was titled "Contribution à L'Étude des Précipitations Par L’analyse des Échos de Pluies Obtenus à L’aide de Radars"[3] which, roughly translated to English was "Contributions to the study of Precipitations via the Analysis of Radar Data."

[8] After a few visits to North America, Lhermitte emigrated to the United States in January 1961 to work with Atlas at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL).

[9] In 1964 Edwin Kessler had just become director of National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) and was coordinating efforts to build a weather radar program.

Lhermitte left the Sperry Rand Research center in early 1964 for this new venture to work with Kessler, K. Wilk, Dale Sirmans and others.

In early 1967, Lhermitte left the NSSL for the Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL) in Boulder, CO, at the request of G. Benton who was the director of ERL.

[11] The observation by Lhermitte of Mie oscillations in the 94 GHz spectrum paved the way to the measurement of drop size distributions in precipitating clouds.

":The technique that we highlight in this paper represents yet another example of the visionary contributions that Dr. Roger Lhermitte has made to radar meteorogology.Lhermitte retired as professor emeritus in the early nineties.