Julius von Hann

Details

Instance of

human

Born

23 March 1839

Died

1 October 1921

Place of birth

Wartberg ob der Aist, Schloss Haus

Place of death

Vienna

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Julius

Sibling

Ludwig Hann

Field of work

meteorology

Occupation

physicist, meteorologist, professor, geographer

Citizenship

Austria

Awards

Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Buys Ballot Medal, Cothenius Medal, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

described by source

Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Otto's encyclopedia, Biographisches Lexikon des Landes Österreich ob der Enns, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)

doctoral student

Victor Conrad

educated at

University of Vienna

employer

University of Vienna, University of Graz, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics / GeoSphere Austria

interested in

geophysics

languages spoken, written or signed

German

member of

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Romanian Academy

name in native language

Julius Ferdinand von Hann

nominated for

Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics

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