Max Margules

Max Margules ( born April 23, 1856 in Brody (Galicia ); † October 4, 1920 in Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian meteorologist.

Max Margules studied at the Vienna University of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 1876, he earned his doctorate in philosophy. He dealt with issues of electrical and hydrodynamics, from 1885 to 1906 he worked at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics.

He explored the atmospheric tides and formulated a theory for the polar front and air pressure waves. In 1901 he published his treatise On the labor value of a distribution of air pressure and conservation of the pressure differences. In 1903 he published one of the classic works of Meteorology: "On the energy of the storms ."

From 1906 he was a private scholar, he withdrew from the Meteorology and turned back to chemical-physical questions about.