Georg Stüve

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Georg Heinrich Friedrich Stüve (born September 8, 1888 in Gadebusch , Mecklenburg , † February 21, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German physicist and meteorologist.

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Stüve studied physics , mathematics and chemistry at the universities of Munich and Kiel , among others with Leonhard Weber . He received his doctorate in Kiel in 1914 with a thesis on photometric measurements of the sky.

Stüve initially worked at the Lindenberg Aeronautical Observatory and then from 1924 to 1935 head of the Frankfurt am Main weather service . The scientific fields of activity were thermodynamics and dynamics of the earth's atmosphere . Its name is associated with the Stüve diagram , which is used for evaluating aerological ascents .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Stüve, Georg - German biography. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
  2. Anniversaries 2013 - German Meteorological Society eV (DMG) . In: German Meteorological Society (DMG) . ( dmg-ev.de [accessed on July 18, 2018]).