Flashcards: German geophysicists

Gustav Herglotz (2 February 1881, Wallern – 22 March 1953, Göttingen) was a German Bohemian mathematician.

Friedrich Burmeister (1890–1969) was a German geophysicist.

Georg Hartmann (sometimes spelled Hartman; February 9, 1489 – April 9, 1564) was a German engineer, instrument maker, author, printer, humanist, churchman, and astronomer.

Friedrich Alfred Seifert (born 8 May 1941) is a German mineralogist and geophysicist.

Gerhard Fanselau (30 April 1904, Leipzig – 28 April 1982, Potsdam) was a German geophysicist.

Axel Stoll (30 October 1948 – 28 July 2014) was an extreme-right esoteric German geophysicist and conspiracy theorist.

Heinz Kohnen (5 February 1938 – 25 July 1997) was a German scientist and geophysicist known for his work in polar research.

Cinna Lomnitz Aronsfrau (4 May 1925 – 7 July 2016) was a Chilean-Mexican geophysicist known for his contributions in the fields of rock mechanics and seismology.

Georg Balthazar von Neumayer (21 June 1826 – 24 May 1909), was a German polar explorer and scientist who was a proponent of the idea of international cooperation for meteorology and scientific observation.

Julius Bartels (August 17, 1899, Magdeburg – March 6, 1964) was a German geophysicist and statistician who made notable contributions to the physics of the Sun and Moon; to geomagnetism and meteorology; and to the physics of the ionosphere.

Heinrich von Ficker (November 22, 1881 – April 29, 1957) was a German-Austrian meteorologist and geophysicist who was a native of Munich.

Walter Zürn (born August 21, 1937) is a German physicist and seismologist.

Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz (22 October 1881 – 20 July 1908) was a German geophysicist who made important contributions to seismology, in particular the formulation of the Zoeppritz equations.