Rudolf Oskar Robert Williams Geiger (; ; 24 August 1894 – 22 January 1981) was a German

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and climatologist. He was the son of

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and the brother of physicist

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. He worked with

Wladimir Köppen Wladimir Peter Köppen (; russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Кёппен, translit=Vladimir Petrovich Kyoppen; 25 September 1846 – 22 June 1940) was a Russian-German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist. After st ...

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, hence the Köppen–Geiger climate classification.

References

* ''Prof. Dr. Rudolf Geiger zum 70. Geburtstag''. Festschrift herausgegeben von seinen Schülern. Universität München – Meteorologisches Institut. Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen Nr. 9, 1964 (with image). * Baumgartner, Albert/ ''Nachruf – Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Rudolf Geiger''. In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Meteorologischen Gesellschaft Jg. 33, 1981, H. 1, S. 21–24. German climatologists German meteorologists 1894 births 1981 deaths 20th-century German scientists {{Climate-bio-stub