Victor Conrad

Victor Conrad (born August 25, 1876 in Vienna , † April 25, 1962 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , USA; also quoted as: Viktor Conrad ) was an Austrian-American climatologist and geophysicist ( seismologist ).

Life

Victor Conrad was a geophysicist at the Vienna Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics . He developed a seismometer for strong earthquakes and is considered the discoverer of the Conrad discontinuity in the earth's crust, which is named after him . He is also considered a co-founder of theoretical meteorology . From 1910 to 1918 he was a professor at the University of Chernivtsi , from the 1920s he taught at the University of Vienna .

As a former member of the SDAP he was politically ostracized in the corporate state and was given leave of absence. After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, he had to emigrate to America. There he continued his university career and taught from 1940-1942 at New York University , then at the California Institute of Technology , the University of Chicago and since 1944 at Harvard University , where he was retired in 1951.

The Conrad Observatory on Trafelberg near Vienna is named after him; his widow Ida F. contributed financially to the realization.

Victor Conrad and Leo Wenzel Pollak : Methods in Climatology . Harvard. Ed. 2, 1950; 1459 pp.

WL Reiter (2001). The expulsion of the Jewish intelligentsia: doubling a loss - 1938/1945. Boarding school Math Messages 187 : 1-20.
A. Plešinger & J. Kozák (2003): Beginnings of Regular Seismic Service and Research in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Part II. Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica 47 (4): 757-791.

personal data
SURNAME	Conrad, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Conrad, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-American climatologist and geophysicist (seismologist)
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1962
Place of death	Cambridge, Massachusetts