Mariano Doporto Marchori

Mariano Doporto Marchori (18 January 1902-8 September 1964) was a Basque physicist and meteorologist, and the second director of the Irish Meteorological Service.

Early life Born on 18 January 1902 in Cáceres, where his father worked as a state surveyor. He was orphaned as a child, and he and his siblings were sent to live with an uncle in Teruel. He moved to Madrid in 1918 to study science at the Central University of Madrid, specialising in physics, and began studying for a doctorate in physics in 1923 He married Mercedes Laguía Paracuellos in 1931. They had three sons, Mariano, Joseph Michael, and Marcial.

Between 1924 and 1927 he worked as a Meteorology Assistant at the Central Meteorological Office in Madrid. During his time as director in San Sebastián, he oversaw technical modernisation of the Observatory, and published numerous papers in the publications he began there.

In 1939 towards the end of the Civil War, Doporto went into exile in Bayonne,

Career in Ireland In Ireland, he was appointed to the newly formed Irish Meteorological Service (IMS) in 1939, at the flying-boats station at Foynes, County Limerick. In 1948 he became the director of the IMS,

Doporto was a member of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Royal Irish Academy. He died in Dublin on 8 September 1964.