Bernhard Haurwitz

Bernhard Haurwitz (August 14, 1905 in Glogau, Germany – February 27, 1986 in Fort Collins, Colorado) was a German-born American meteorologist and physicist.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?haurwitzb |title=Array of contemporary physicists:Bernhard Haurwitz |access-date=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502001116/http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?haurwitzb |archive-date=2014-05-02 |url-status=dead }}[http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5193&page=87 National Academies Press:Biographical Memoirs:V.69] Haurwitz was Chair of Department of Meteorology at New York University (NYU), a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS),[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B1EF63F5916738DDDAE0A94DC405B808AF1D3&scp=3&sq=%22Bernhard%20Haurwitz%22&st=cse New York Times:SCIENCE ACADEMY ADDS 35 TO ROLLS; Berkner Named Treasurer, Hutchinson and Williams Elected to Council, April 27, 1960] and a recipient of the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal. He was awarded the William Bowie Medal in 1970.

Education

Haurwitz received a Ph.D. degree in Meteorology and Geophysics in 1927 from the University of Leipzig.

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