William Charles Redfield

William C. Redfield[a] (March 26, 1789 – February 12, 1857) was an American meteorologist.

[6][7][5][8] Redfield is known in meteorology for his observation of the directionality of winds in hurricanes,[9] being among the first to propose that hurricanes are large circular vortexes[10] (John Farrar had made similar observations six years earlier), though his interests were varied and influential.

Redfield organized and was a member of the first expedition to Mount Marcy in 1837; he was the first to correctly guess that Marcy was the highest peak in the Adirondacks, and therefore in New York.

Mount Redfield was named in his honor by Verplanck Colvin.

[5] At a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1854, Redfield mentioned a storm-path in which no less than seventy odd vessels had been wrecked, dismasted, or damaged.