Ferdinand Dannmeyer

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Ferdinand Dannmeyer (born August 26, 1880 in Kiel , † November 13, 1959 in Hamburg-Groß Borstel ) was a German meteorologist.

Life

Ferdinand Dannmeyer studied under Paul Stäckel in Kiel and wrote his dissertation in 1904, The Surface and Volume Calculation for Lobatschefskij 's Space, with special consideration of the rotational solids and polyhedra .

During the First World War he was an artilleryman in Flanders .

Then he founded the Institute for Physical-Biological Light Research e. V. to research the effects of light on people, especially the still little-known UV light . There, the physicist developed Franz Skaupy (1882-1969) of the Auergesellschaft the first Vitalux lamp, an incandescent lamp with UV-transmitting glass bulb as a mild Dorno emitters (UV-B).

From 1920 to 1922 he examined the visibility conditions at sea. He was able to follow the haze of the big cities for 100 km to the leeward.

At his suggestion, his colleague Joachim Schubert examined the UV intensity of the sun in Africa and discovered ozone holes .

He supported Hans Ulrich Roll in his long-term research on the formation of ocean waves through the action of wind and made the institute building on Neuwerk available.

In 1926 he made his first trip to Iceland . He made acoustic depth measurements up to a depth of 1500 m. In Iceland he also discovered that the UV radiation of the arctic sky is many times stronger than in his home country - even after sunset ( Dannmeyer phenomenon ). He identified the haze of the Gulf Stream as the cause. When measuring the wind speed at great heights, he discovered the jet stream at a height of 8-14 km .

His daughter Lieselotte married the documentary filmmaker Alfred Ehrhardt around 1938 .

In 1950 he founded the Society of Friends of Iceland in Hamburg and was awarded the Great Knights Cross of the Order of the Falcons by the Icelandic President in 1954 .

Publications

  • About skill lessons following physics ; 1909
  • Sea pilot, lighting and rescue services: a contribution to the characteristics of the North Sea and the Lower Elbe ; 1911
  • Physics for girls' high schools, lyceums and universities ; 1912
  • The Working Diamond: Comments On Its Industrial Valuation ; 1928
  • with Ludwig Gmelin : The German Iceland Expedition, 1927: [Radiation biolog. Expedition] ; 1929
  • Basic investigations on incandescent lamps with ultraviolet-permeable glass: Communication from d. Light Research Institute d. General Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital, ad Studienges. for electrical lighting, Berlin ; 1929
  • Big city sun and ultraviolet light bulb ; 1929
  • with Alfred Rüttenauer: The Osram Vitalux lamp ; around 1929
  • Physico-chemical studies on the blood of carcinomatous ; 1932
  • A tower and its island - monograph of the North Sea island Neuwerk Cuxhaven 1952. (Co-editors Erich von Lehe and Heinrich Rüther . Photos Alfred Ehrhardt )
  • From August Köster's curriculum vitae ; 1952

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ epic.awi.de (PDF)
  2. ↑ springerlink.com
  3. ↑ In memory of Prof Dr Ferdinand Dannmeyer from the German Society for Polar Research
  4. ↑ kunstaspekte.de
personal data
SURNAME Dannmeyer, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1959
Place of death Hamburg-Groß Borstel