Fritz Möller (meteorologist)

Fritz Möller (born May 16, 1906 in Rudolstadt ; † March 21, 1983 in Munich ) was a German meteorologist and geophysicist. He is considered a pioneer in satellite meteorology.

Life

Möller's father of the same name was director of the Rudolstadt hospital. Möller studied geophysics and meteorology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1924 . In 1925 he went to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , which it with a 1928 doctoral dissertation at Franz left for Dr. phil. nat. PhD . In 1935 he completed his habilitation on the dynamics of the atmosphere. From 1934 he worked as a meteorologist at Frankfurt Airport . In the meantime he worked in the new Reich Weather Service from 1935 to 1938 . From 1938 he taught at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Leipzig .

The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz appointed him in 1948 as a professor . His institute became internationally significant in radiation research. In 1960 Möller followed the call of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Until his retirement in 1972 he headed the Meteorological Institute and the Institute for Meteorology and Climatology. Contrary to Möler's wishes, the order for Meteosat went to France as part of the European cooperation . Möller died at the age of 76. Since 1924 he was a member of the Corps Thuringia Jena .

Möller, who worked with Syukuro Manabe on the numerical determination of radiation fluxes in 1959/60 , stayed twice for research stays in the USA, the second time to evaluate measurement data from meteorological satellites . In the Global Atmospheric Research Program , he was the only German on the executive committee.

Fonts

Statistical studies on the constancy of air bodies . Dissertation. GoogleBooks
with Peregrin Zistler : Meteorological travel report and results of the altitude wind measurements from the trip to Cameroon, July - August 1933 . Deutsche Seewarte 1935. GoogleBooks
General Meteorology , Guides for Use at the Weather Service School, 1. 1942. GoogleBooks
Vertical movements in the atmosphere . Field Information Agency, Technical 1947. GoogleBooks
with Ehrhard Raschke : Evaluation of Tiros III radiation data . NASA 1964. GoogleBooks
Introduction to Meteorology , 1973 and 1984. GoogleBooks 1973
with Franz Linke : Handbuch der Geophysik , Vol. 10, Part 1. Stuttgart 1974 GoogleBooks

Honors

Alfred Wegener Medal (1977)
Honorary doctorate from the University of Mainz
President of the International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP) (1959–1967)
Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1959)
Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1962)

literature

Gustav Hofmann: Möller, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 640 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Gustav Hofmann: Möller, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 640 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ On the history of the Meteorological Institute Munich (MIM)
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 62/997.
^ Member entry of Fritz Möller at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 16, 2016.
^ Member entry by Fritz Möller at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 16, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Möller, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German meteorologist, geophysicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rudolstadt
DATE OF DEATH	March 21, 1983
Place of death	Munich

[NDB-1] Gustav Hofmann: Möller, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 640 f. ( Digitized version ).

[MIM-2] On the history of the Meteorological Institute Munich (MIM)

[3] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 62/997.

[4] Member entry of Fritz Möller at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 16, 2016.

[5] Member entry by Fritz Möller at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 16, 2016.