Office
Email: klaus.hasselmann@ mpimet.mpg.de
Phone: +49-40-41173-236
Fax: +49-40-41173-290
Room S2.17
Mailing Address
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
Bundesstraße 53
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Department
25. October 1931 | Born in Hamburg |
1934 | Emigrated to England with family |
1936 - 1949 | Elementary and Grammar School (High School) in Welwyn Garden City, Herts., England |
July 1949 | Final High School Exam (Cambridge Higher School Certificate) |
August 1949 | Return to Hamburg with family |
Sept. 1949 - April 1950 | Practical course in Mechanical Engineering, Menck und Hambrock, Hamburg |
May 1950 - July 1955 | Study of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Hamburg |
November 1952 | Pre-Diplom Exam |
July 1955 | Diplom Exam (Diplom thesis on Turbulence, advisor: Professor K. Wieghardt) |
November 1955 - July 1957 | Study of Physics and Fluid Dynamics at the University of Göttingen and the Max-Planck-Institute of Fluid Dynamics |
July 1957 | Ph.D., University of Göttingen (Professor W. Tollmien) |
August 1957 | Marriage to Susanne Barthe, |
August 1957 - October 1961 | Research Assistant to Professor K. Wieghardt at the Institute of Naval Architecture at the University of Hamburg |
October 1961 - October 1964 | Assistant, then Associate Professor at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, USA |
February 1963 | Habilitation in Hamburg |
Nov. 1964 - Nov. 1966 | Lecturer at the University of Hamburg |
November 1966 - February 1969 Sept 1967 - Feb1968 | Professor at the University of Hamburg ( leave of absence Sept 1967 - Feb 1968) Visiting Fellow, University College, Cambridge University |
February 1969 - September 1972 | Department Director and Professor at the University of Hamburg (leave of absence, July 1970 - July 1972) |
July 1970 - July 1972 | Doherty Professor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass., USA |
September 1972 - January 1975 | Full Professor for Theoretical Geophysics, Managing Director, Institute of Geophysics at the University of Hamburg |
February 1975 - November 1999 | Director of the Max-Planck-Institute of Meteorology , Hamburg |
January 1988 - November 1999 | Scientific Director at the German Climate Computer Centre, Hamburg |
November 1999 | Emeritus |
January 1963 | Carl Christiansen Commemorative Award |
April 1964 | James B. Macelwane Award of the American Geophysical Union |
November 1970 | Academic Award for Physics from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen |
January 1971 | Sverdrup Medal of the American Meteorological Union |
December 1981 | Belfotop-Eurosense Award of the Remote Sensing Society |
April 1990 | Robertson Memorial Lecture Award of the US National Academy of Sciences |
September 1990 | Förderpreis für die Europäische Wissenschaft of the Körber-Stiftung,Hamburg |
June 1993 | Nansen Polar Bear Award, Bergen, Norway |
December 1994 | Oceanography Award sponsored by the Society for Underwater Technology, Portland, UK |
March 1996 | Oceanology International Lifetime Achievement Award |
October 1996 | Premio Italgas per la Ricerca e L'Innovazione 1996 |
May 1997 | Symons Memorial Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society |
November 1998 | Umweltpreis 1998 der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt |
May 1999 | Karl-Küpfmüller-Ring der Technischen Universität Darmstadt |
July 2000 | Dr. honoris causa, University of East Anglia |
April 2002 | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal of the European Geophysical Society |
November 2005 | Gold medal of the University of Alcala, Spain |
August 2007 | Achievement Award, International Meetings in Statistical Climatology, Beijing |
Januar 2010 | BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award |
October 2021 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
1. Foreign Member Royal Swedish Academy of Science
2. Honorary Member European Geosciences Union
3. Member European Academy of Science and Arts
4. Honorary Fellow Royal Meteorological Society
5. Fellow American Geophysical Union
6. Member Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft
7. Member Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik