Wladimir koppen biography sample
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Wladimir Köppen: Scholar for Life / Ein Gelehrtenleben für die Meteorologie
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Language: Bilingual in English and German
This is the complete English translation (and the original German language version) of the biography of famous and influential Russian-German meteorologist/climatologist Wladimir Köppen (–), edited by his daughter Else, with an updated bibliography of his publications.
Köppen's life stands out among the lives of many of his peers, in that he has made lasting contributions to atmospheric sciences and climatology (e.g. the Köppen-Geiger Classification of Climates which is still being used, and refined to this very day). He also made other important contributions to meteorological research and the organisation of weather services.
At the same time, Köppen has a scholarly publication record that spans eight (!) decades and comprises publications. All this between many twists and turns in his life in Russia and Germany, moves, and unexpected events he had to endure, among them copious private problems such as the untimely deaths of two sons, the loss of a third, and later, the loss of his closest collaborator and son-in-law Alfred Wegener.
It is fascinating to read how the successful and influential Köpp
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As noted by C. W. Thornthwaite, the most important name in the history of climatology, and to many the father of modern climatology, is Wladimir Peter Köppen (Thornthwaite, ). Köppen published his first significant paper in and was researching, writing and publishing at the time of his death. He was born on 25 September , in St Petersburg, the capital of the Imperial Russian Empire, and died in Graz, Austria, on 22 June Raised in an intellectual academic environment of German, French, and Russian scholars, Köppen developed a deep sense of environmental perception, a wonder for the varied vegetal zones of Imperial Russia, and an appreciation of the effects that climate has upon life on Earth. His grandfather was a German medical doctor invited to Imperial Russia by Empress Catherine the Great. He became a personal physician to the royal family. His father, Peter von Köppen, was a geographer who served on the faculty at the Imperial Academy of Science. Appointed to
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Wladimir Peter Köppen ()
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