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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectBernhard Haurwitz
Dates
August 14, 1905 – February 27, 1986
Authorized Form of Name
Haurwitz, Bernhard
Additional Forms of Names
Haurwitz, B. (Bernhard)
Haurwitz, Bernhard, 1905-1986
Biography
Abstract
Bernhard Haurwitz was Professor, Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (1973-1982). Other institutional affiliations included the National Center for Atmospheric Research and New York University. His research interests included atmospheric motions and wave mechanics.
Important Dates
August 14, 1905Birth (Glogau, Germany), GogoÌw (WojewoÌdztwo DolnosÌlaÌskie, Poland).
1927Obtained PhD in Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany).
1927 – 1932Assistant in Geophysics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany).
1932 – 1935Research Associate, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, Harvard University.
1935 – 1941Andrew Carnegie Fellow (1935-1937) and Special Lecturer (1937-1941), University of Toronto, Toronto (Ont.).
1937 – 1941Meteorologist, Meteorological Service of Canada.
1941 – 1947Associate Professor of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).
1947 – 1955Associate, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
1947 – 1959Professor of Meteorology (1947-1959) and Chair, Department of Meteorology (1947-1959), New York University, New York (N.Y.).
1959 – 1964Professor of Geophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder (Colo.).
1960Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1962Awarded Carl Gustaf-Rossby Award for Extraordinary Scientific Achievement, American Meteorological Society.
1964 – 1973Staff Member, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
1971 – 1972Gauss Professor, Göttingen Academy of Science.
1972Awarded Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union.
1973 – 1982Professor, Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins (Colo.).
February 27, 1986Death, Fort Collins (Colo.).
Occupation
Atmospheric physicist.
Places
Birth
GogoÌw (WojewoÌdztwo DolnosÌlaÌskie, Poland)
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Haurwitz, Eva Schick
First wife, married in 1934. Divorced in 1946.
Haurwitz, Frank
Son.
Haurwitz, Ilse
Sister.
Haurwitz, Marion Blanche Wood
Second wife, married in 1961.
Haurwitz, Paul
Father.
Advisors & Collaborators
Weickmann, Ludwig
PhD advisor at University of Leipzig on the relations between changes of atmospheric pressure and temperature.
Colleagues
Both employed at New York University.
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954
Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974
Both employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dunn, G. H. (Gordon H.), 1932-
Both employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Both employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Additional
Malone, Thomas F.
Smagorinsky, J. (Joseph)
Institutions
Major Positions
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen
Gauss Professor.
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Research Associate.
Colorado State University. Physics Department
Professor of Atmospheric Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Meteorology
Associate Professor of Meteorology.
Meteorological Service of Canada
Meteorologist.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.)
Research, Staff Member.
New York University. Department of Meteorology and Oceanography
Professor of Meteorology and Chair, Department of Meteorology.
Universität Leipzig (1409-1953)
Obtained PhD in Meteorology and Geophysics (1927). Assistant in Geophysics.
University of Colorado Boulder. Department of Physics
Professor of Geophysics.
University of Toronto. Department of Physics
Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Special Lecturer.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Associate.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
American Geophysical Union
Received 1972 Bowie Medal.
American Meteorological Society
President and received 1962 Carl Gustaf-Rossby Award for Extraordinary Scientific Achievement.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Bernhard Haurwitz autobiographical lectures, 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Bernhard Haurwitz papers, 1920s-1986.
Libraries. Western Historical Collections
University of Colorado
Campus Box 184, Boulder, CO 80302-0184, USA
Subject
Oral history interview with Joseph Smagorinsky, 1986 May 16, 17 and 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Thomas F. Malone, 1995 January 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Thomas F. Malone, 2000 November 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Climatology / by Bernhard Haurwitz ... and James M. Austin …
Dynamic meteorology / by Bernhard Haurwitz …
Subject
"Bernhard Haurwitz: 1905-1986", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences