About Albert Riggenbach
Lived 1854 – 1921 (aged 66). Albert Riggenbach was a Swiss meteorologist and physicist.
Albert Riggenbach (22 August 1854 – 28 February 1921), also known as Albert Riggenbach-Burckhardt, was a Swiss meteorologist and co-author, with Hugo Hildebrandsson and Léon Teisserenc de Bort, of one of the first cloud atlases, the International Cloud Atlas in 1896. His doctoral dissertation (Habilitationsschrift) concerned observations of the first described Bishop's Ring.
1896 International Cloud Atlas
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Who was Albert Riggenbach?
meteorologist (1854-1921)
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Albert Riggenbach was born on 22 August 1854 in Basel.
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Albert Riggenbach died on 28 February 1921 in Basel.
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Albert Riggenbach was a meteorologist and physicist.
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Albert Riggenbach was Swiss.
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