Christian Jensen (meteorologist)

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Christian Albrecht Theodor Jensen (born November 10, 1867 in Neumünster (Holstein), † November 23, 1942 in Hamburg ) was a German physicist and meteorologist as well as a professor at the University of Hamburg .

The pastor's son studied in Strasbourg and Kiel from 1891 to 1896 and received his doctorate in 1898 under Leonhard Weber in Kiel on photometry of the sky. He then became an assistant at the Physics Institute at the University of Kiel from 1895–99, and from 1900–22 assistant and employee at the State Physical Laboratory in Hamburg and a scientific member of the Hamburg State Technical College . In 1920 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg and in 1932 became associate professor of cosmic physics . Severely handicapped by polio , he turned to celestial radiation and atmospheric polarization. So he collected all observations of the neutral points of the celestial polarization that were available up to 1909 . Due to his preliminary work, the astronomers Viktor Hambarzumjan , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Zdenek Sekera only succeeded in making the explanation around 1950 . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

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  • with Friedrich Busch : Facts and Theories of Atmospheric Polarization (1910)
  • Sky radiation , in: Handbuch der Physik , Vol. 19 (1928)
  • (Ed.): The clouds problems of cosmic physics , Leipzig 1936

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SURNAME Jensen, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jensen, Christian Albrecht Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and meteorologist as well as lecturer at the University of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumunster (Holstein)
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1942
Place of death Hamburg