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Helmut Erich Landsberg was born at Frankfurt-am-Main in February 1906. At Frankfurt University he studied a wide range of Earth sciences and the subject of the dissertation he defended for his Ph.D. was seismographic recorders. Through his former tutor, Professor Beno Gutenberg, Landsberg was offered a post involving teaching and research work in geophysics and meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University, and he went to the USA in 1934. In 1941 he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Chicago which had a particularly high reputation among atmospheric scientists of the day, the Meteorological Department being headed by Professor Carl-Gustav Rossby. In 1949 he became a member of President Truman’s Air Pollution Committee and contributed to the formulation of air pollution legislation.
WMO Bulletin, 33(2), Apr. 1984
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Taba, H. (1991). The Bulletin Interviews: Professor H. E. Landsberg. In: Baer, F., Canfield, N.L., Mitchell, J.M. (eds) Climate in Human Perspective. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3320-3_10
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