Klaus Hasselmann
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Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann (born 25 October 1931 in Hamburg ) is a German climatologist, meteorologist and oceanographer.
His father was the publicist Erwin Hasselmann. From 1934 to August 1949, he emigrated with his family to England. From 1950 to 1955 he studied physics and mathematics at the University of Hamburg, received his doctorate from 1955 to 1957 at the Max Planck Institute for Flow Research in Göttingen and had subsequently to 1964, several assistants. In February 1963 he habilitated at the University of Hamburg.
From 1966 he was a professor and later director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of Hamburg and a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. From 1970 to 1972 he was professor at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and then to 1975 Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, later Director of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Hamburg. From 1975 to November 1999, he was Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg and from 1988 to 1999 Scientific Director at the German Climate Computing Center in Hamburg.
In the field of science of global warming, it is the author who received the most references per publication.