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Max Margules

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Max Margules · Science & Medicine

What

Meteorologist who laid theoretical foundations for atmospheric energetics, fronts and tides

When

1856, Brody, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) — 1920, Perchtoldsdorf, Austria

Where

Austria · Ukraine

Biography

Max Margules is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Meteorologist who laid theoretical foundations for atmospheric energetics, fronts and tides

How & why

Margules was a Jewish physicist and meteorologist, born in Brody, who laid the theoretical foundations of atmospheric energetics, explaining the energy of storms and fronts and the dynamics of atmospheric tides. He died in poverty in postwar Austria. He was born into a Jewish family in Galicia.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science

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Meteorologist who laid theoretical foundations for atmospheric energetics, fronts and tides

1856

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science