Peter Fabian

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Peter Fabian (born October 11, 1937 in Dresden ; † March 11, 2014 ) was a German atmospheric chemist and physicist and professor of bioclimatology and pollution research at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Fabian studied physics , geophysics and meteorology in Göttingen and Innsbruck and received his doctorate in 1966 with a thesis on atmospheric ozone.

He then went to the "University of California" as a postdoc and then headed the trace gases research group at the then Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy (today MPI for Solar System Research ), where, among other things, he determined the vertical distribution of important halogenated hydrocarbons . In 1988 he was appointed to the forest science faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he was dean from 1997 to 1999.

Fabian continued to research photooxidants and their chemistry within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 607, for which, among other things, the first system for controlled ozone fumigation of the crowns of forest trees was developed. After his retirement he did research in a DFG project on the input of nutrients via rain and fog in a mountain rainforest in Ecuador. In addition to 225 specialist articles, he has published three non-fiction books on atmospheric research and climate research.

He was active in numerous committees of national and international research organizations. Most notably, he was co-founder and first President of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and Vice President and President of the European Geophysical Society.

Publications (selection)

  • Atmosphere and environment: chemical processes, human intervention. Ozone layer, air pollution, smog, acid rain. Springer, Berlin 1984; 4th, expanded and updated edition 1992, ISBN 3-540-55773-3 .
  • Life in the greenhouse. Our climate system - and what we do with it. Springer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-540-43361-9 .
  • with Martin Dameris: Ozone in the Atmosphere: Basic Principles, Natural and Human Impacts. Springer, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-54098-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Fabian, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2014