When was Klaus Hasselmann born?

Klaus Hasselmann was born on 25 October 1931 in Hamburg.

What positions has Klaus Hasselmann held?

Positions held by Klaus Hasselmann include: deputy chairperson (until 2018).

Where did Klaus Hasselmann study?

Klaus Hasselmann was educated at University of Göttingen, University of Hamburg, Max Planck Society.

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Klaus Hasselmann

German climate researcher, meteorologist, and oceanologist (born 1931)

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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.

Quick facts

Born: 25 October 1931 wd
Place of birth: Hamburg wd
Citizenship: Germany wd
Occupation: physicist, meteorologist, university teacher, oceanographer, climatologist wd
Education: University of Göttingen, University of Hamburg, Max Planck Society wd
Official website: mpimet.mpg.de/en/staff/externalmembers/klaus-hasselmann wd

Positions held wd

deputy chairperson (until 2018)

Awards wd

Körber European Science Prize (1990)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2009)
James B. Macelwane Medal (1964)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2021)
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2022)
Sverdrup Gold Medal Award (1971)
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal (2002)
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1964)

About

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.

He is best known for developing the Hasselmann model of climate variability, where a system with a long memory (the ocean) integrates stochastic forcing, thereby transforming a white-noise signal into a red-noise one, thus explaining (without special assumptions) the ubiquitous red-noise signals seen in the climate (see, for example, the development of swell waves).

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When was Klaus Hasselmann born?: Klaus Hasselmann was born on 25 October 1931 in Hamburg.
What positions has Klaus Hasselmann held?: Positions held by Klaus Hasselmann include: deputy chairperson (until 2018).
Where did Klaus Hasselmann study?: Klaus Hasselmann was educated at University of Göttingen, University of Hamburg, Max Planck Society.

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