Hartmut Graßl Explained

Hartmut Graßl (born 18 March 1940)^[1] is a German climate scientist and a former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.

Born in Salzberg, near Berchtesgaden, Graßl studied physics and meteorology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and earned his PhD in Munich in 1970. In 1981 he became professor of theoretical meteorology at the University of Kiel, and in 1984 he became director of the Institute of Physics at the GKSS Research Centre. In 1988 he became professor at the University of Hamburg and director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} He retired in 2005.^[6]

Honours

• Young Scientist Award of the, 1971
• Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, 1988
• , 1991
• Member of the Academia Europaea, 1994
• German Environmental Prize, 1998^[7]
• Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2002
• Bavarian Order of Merit, 2008

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hartmut Graßl . Munzinger Biographie . de . 14 October 2021.
2. Web site: Professor Dr. Hartmut Graßl . International Foundation for the Law of the Sea . 13 October 2021.
3. Web site: Hartmut Graßl . . 13 October 2021.
4. Web site: Hartmut Graßl . Deutsche Umweltstiftung . 13 October 2021.
5. Web site: Das MPI-M gratuliert Hartmut Graßl zum 80. Geburtstag . mpimet . 18 March 2020 . de . 14 October 2021.
6. Web site: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Graßl . DeutschesSchauSpielHausHamburg . de . 14 October 2021.
7. Web site: Deutscher Umweltpreis 1998 – Prof. Dr. Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann – Stichwort: Klimamodelle entwickeln – Deutscher Umweltpreis . DBU . de . 14 October 2021.