Prof. Klaus Hasselmann

Office

Email:    klaus.hasselmann@we dont want spammpimet.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

Emeriti

Research Interests

Climate dynamics
Stochastic processes
Ocean waves
Satellite remote sensing
Integrated assessment studies
Unified field theory

Curriculum vitae

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, 3 children, Meike (born 1958), Knut (born 1961), Annette (born 1963), 9 grandchildren
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

Awards

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

Memberships in Societies

1. Foreign Member Opens external link in current window Royal Swedish Academy of Science

2. Honorary Member Opens external link in current window European Geosciences Union

3. Member Opens external link in current window European Academy of Science and Arts

4. Honorary Fellow Opens external link in current window Royal Meteorological Society

5. Fellow Opens external link in current window American Geophysical Union

6. Member Opens external link in current window Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft

7. Member Opens external link in current window Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

Hobbies

Sailing
Music
Hiking