Richard Assmann
Adolph Richard Assmann ( born April 13, 1845 in Magdeburg, † May 28 1918 in Gießen ) was a German meteorologist and developed named after him Aspirationspsychrometer. He worked for a popularization of meteorology and is considered a co-founder of Aerology.
Life
Assmann, son of a leather manufacturer, completed the Magdeburg Domgymnasium and studied medicine from 1865 in Berlin. In 1868 he received his doctorate and worked as a general practitioner in Freiwalde (Oder) 1870-1879. Here he straightened already a private meteorological observatory. In 1879 he went as a general practitioner in his native city of Magdeburg.
On October 29, 1880 he founded, together with the newspaper publisher Alexander Faber the Meteorological Institute of the Magdeburg newspaper and took over its management. On December 12, 1880, the first newspaper weather map of Germany in the Magdeburg newspaper was published. Assmann founded in 1881 the Association of Agricultural Meteorology, 1882, the monthly magazine for practical meteorology and in 1884 the popular science monthly magazine The weather, which he edited until his death. 1885 ended with a PhD Assmann his second degree at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Halle. In 1886 he became a research top official at the Royal Meteorological Institute Berlin- Grunau. As a member of the Berlin Society for the Promotion of Aeronautics, he initiated and organized from 1888 to 1899 whose scientific air trips to explore the atmosphere by means of manned free balloon ascents. In 1888 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina.
1889 Aeronautical Observatory Reinickendorf was built on his initiative. From 1887 to 1892 he developed with Hans Bartsch Sigsfeld named after him Aspirationspsychrometer for measuring the temperature and humidity to the exclusion of radiation, its technical implementation, and production in the workshop by Rudolf Fuess was. Coinciding with Léon- Philippe Teisserenc de Bort, he discovered the constancy of temperature above 11 km ( stratosphere ).
In 1903 he was awarded, together with Arthur Berson Buys- Ballot, the Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
Was on October 16, 1905 as the successor of the observatory in Reinickendorf on Assmann's initiative, the Royal Prussian Aeronautical Observatory in Lindenberg (Brandenburg) opened in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II. Assmann was from 1905 to 1914 director of the observatory. The observatory carries since 16 October 2005 - the 100th anniversary of the establishment - the addition of " Richard Assmann Observatory ".
As a Privy Councillor in 1914, he retired from office. Until his death, he taught as an honorary professor at the University of Giessen.
The tomb Assmann is unknown. His ashes were kept for many years in the aerological observatory Lindenberg, but is now considered lost. It is believed that she was buried on the grounds of the observatory.
Honors
His hometown Magdeburg named the Assmann street after him. Furthermore, in Tauche exists the Richard Assmann Observatory.
Works (selection)
- Richard Assmann: The storm in central Germany. According to the observations of the Association for landwirthschaftliche meteorology, Diss Hall 1885
- Richard Assmann, Arthur Berson (eds. ): Scientific air rides, Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1899 (Vol. 1), 1900 (Vol. 2, 3)
- Richard Assmann: About the existence of a warmer air current in the height of 10 to 15 km away. In: Proceedings of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin (meeting of the physico- mathematical class from 1 May 1902) 24, 1902, pp. 495-504