Q109370
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Person
- Born
- 1931-10-25
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Key facts
- Born
- Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann , ( 1931-10-25 ) 25 October 1931 (age 94) , Hamburg , Weimar Republic
- Education
- University of Hamburg ( Diplom ), Max Planck Society , University of Göttingen ( PhD )
- Awards
- Italgas Prize for Environmental Science (1996) , Nobel Prize in Physics (2021)
- Fields
- Climate variability , Climate model
- Institutions
- University of Hamburg , Scripps Institution of Oceanography , University of California, San Diego , Max Planck Society , Max Planck Institute for Meteorology , German Climate Computing Centre
- Thesis
- Über eine Methode zur Bestimmung der Reflexion und Brechung von Stoßfronten und von beliebigen Wellen kleiner Wellenlängen an der Trennungsfläche zweier Medien (1957)
- Doctoral advisor
- Walter Tollmien
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 25 October 1931
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ferdinand
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Occupation
- climatologist
- Position held
- deputy chairperson
- Educated at
- Max Planck Society
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
Article
Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann ( German pronunciation: [klaʊs ˈhasl̩man] ; born 25 October 1931) is a German oceanographer and climate modeller. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Syukuro Manabe and Giorgio Parisi.
Hasselmann grew up in Welwyn Garden City, England and returned to Hamburg in 1949 to attend university. Throughout his career he has mainly been affiliated with the University of Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, which he founded. He also spent five years in the United States as a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a year as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge.
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1931 birthsAcademic staff of Max Planck SocietyAcademic staff of the University of HamburgFellows of the American Geophysical UnionGerman climatologistsGerman Nobel laureatesGerman oceanographersGerman theoretical physicistsLiving peopleMax Planck Institute directorsMax Planck Society alumniMembers of Academia Europaea