Klaus Hasselmann

Klaus Hasselmann: Biography in Details

Who is Klaus Hasselmann?

Klaus Hasselmann is a German oceanographer and climate modeler. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.

Klaus is also known for developing the Hasselmann model of climate variability, transforming a white-noise signal into a red-noise one, thus explaining the frequent red-noise signals seen in the climate.

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.

Klaus Hasselmann- Age, Parents, Ethnicity

On October 25, 1931, in Hamburg, Germany Klaus was born with the zodiac sign Scorpio. He belongs to the Jewish ethnicity.

His father served as a social democrat. He did not want to live in Germany, hence in 1934, Hasselmann and his family emigrated from Hamburg to England, where he spent his childhood in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.

Klaus Hasselmann has an elder sister.

They returned to Hamburg after World War II.

In which school did Klaus Hasselmann attend?

Hasselmann studied physics and mathematics at the University of Hamburg and graduated in 1955, after completing a thesis on isotropic turbulence.

He continued his work in physics and fluid dynamics at the University of Göttingen and at the Max Planck Institute of Fluid Dynamics, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 1957.

He completed his A-levels in London.

Klaus Hasselmann- Professional Life, Career

• He served as a research assistant at the Institute of Naval Architecture at the University of Hamburg from 1957 to 1961.
• Before accepting a professorship at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, from 1961 to 1964.
• After a short visiting professorship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts from 1970 to 1972. Hasselmann earned the rank of full professor for theoretical geophysics and served as managing director at the university’s Institute of Geophysics until 1975 when he became the founding director for the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, where he served as director until 1999.
• Klaus Hasselmann also served as the scientific director at the German Climate Computing Centre, also in Hamburg, from 1988 to 1999.
• In 1979, he published statistical techniques that allowed climate scientists to identify the presence and relative strength of these warming signals.
• In 1997, he is the recipient of the Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society, the Symons Memorial Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society (1997), and the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal of the European Geophysical Society (2002). Hasselmann has either authored or co-authored more than 175 scientific publications and has contributed to six books, including Ocean Wave Modeling (1985) and Reframing the Problem of Climate Change: From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions (2012).

Awards

• July 2000-Dr. honoris causa, University of East Anglia
• April 2002-Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal of the European Geophysical Society
• November 2005-Gold medal of the University of Alcala, Spain
• August 2007-Achievement Award, International Meetings in Statistical Climatology, Beijing
• Januar 2010-BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
• October 2021-Nobel Prize in Physics

Klaus Hasselmann- Net Worth, Salary

Klaus Hasselman has earned a huge amount of money from his profession and has a net worth of $5-$10 million as of 2023.

Rumors, Controversy

Klaus Hasselmann has never been part of any controversy and rumors till now. He prefers enjoying his personal life and does not want to merge it with his professional life.

How tall is Klaus Hasselmann?

Klaus Hasselman has a height of 5 feet 8 inches and an average weight of 68 kg. His hair color is silver white and has brown pairs of eyes.

Social Media

Klaus Hasselmann is not officially present on social sites such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

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