Abstract: In order to adapt to the environment and avoid disadvantages, human beings must keep exploring the atmosphere and its evolution rules, predicting its trends of change scientifically. Seeking the inspiration of atmospheric science history for the present, this paper reviews some key events in the history of atmospheric science by analyzing the development of the Bergen School and Chicago School of Meteorology, and putting forward the contributions of Chinese meteorologists in modern times. This paper sums up some viewpoints. The development of atmospheric science depends on the latest achievements of natural sciences, and it also contributes to the development of other subjects. With the development of atmospheric science, one should be tolerant to different viewpoints and not be superstitious to authority. And the leading talents are quite essential for the development of atmospheric science.