Jørgen Holmboe
Jørgen Holmboe | |
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Born | November 8, 1902 Hammerfest, Norway |
Died | October 29, 1979 | (aged 76)
Scientific career | |
Fields | Meteorology |
Doctoral advisor | Vilhelm Bjerknes |
Doctoral students | Jule Gregory Charney |
Jørgen Holmboe (November 8, 1902 – October 29, 1979) was a Norwegian-American meteorologist.
Life and career
Jørgen Holmboe was born near
He received his early education from his father, who was a minister, attended secondary school in
In 1936, he was invited to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as assistant professor. In 1940, he was asked to join in establishing a meteorology program at University of California, Los Angeles. The program was initially part of the physics department; it became a separate department in 1946. Holmboe was chairman for the first year after the Department of Meteorology was established and served as chairman again for the period from 1949 through 1958. In 1944, Holmboe became a naturalized American citizen. Holmboe was elected fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union and foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[3]
Selected works
- On the Theory of Cyclones (paper jointly with J. Bjerknes. 1944)
- Dynamic Meteorology (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1952)
- On the instability of stratified shear flow (Universitetsforlaget. 1966)
- Instability of baroclinic three-layer models of the atmosphere (Universitetsforlaget. 1968)
References
- ^ "Holmboe, Jørgen". Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. 2007.Norwegian
- ^ Family genealogy (vestraat.net)
- ^ Jorgen Holmboe, Meteorology: Los Angeles (by Morris Neiburger, James G. Edinger, and Norton G. Wurtele. The Regents of The University of California) [1]
Sources
- A Biography of Jorgen Holmboe, 1902-1979 (by Jason Zarate)[2]
External links
- Jorgen Holmboe Papers MSS-S 101. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.