Hermann flohn biography graphic organizer

Hermann Flohn (19 February 1912 – 23 June 1997) was a climatologist.^[1] Flohn was professor at the University of Bonn and head of the department at the Institute of Meteorology of Bonn University.

Hermann flohn biography graphic organizer pdf

He produced about 360 publications. Flohn was member in numerous scientific societies such as the Bavarian Academy, the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Belgium.^[2]

Life

Flohn was born in Frankfurt am Main, he studied geography, meteorology, geophysics, and geology at the universities of Frankfurt and Innsbruck.

Having obtained his doctorate in 1934, he accepted a position at the newly established German Meteorological Service (Reichswetterdienst). From 1941 he was employed at the meteorological service of the Luftwaffe High Command.

In 1941 Flohn published the first German article concerning anthropogenic climate change. Having returned to the Deutscher Wetterdienst after the