!!!Ficker, Heinrich von

b. Munich (Germany), Nov. 22, 1881, 
d. Vienna, April 29, 1957, meteorologist, geophysicist; son of Julius 
von  Ficker, brother of Ludwig von  Ficker and Rudolf von  Ficker. 
Professor at the University of Graz, 1923 professor of meteorology at 
Berlin University, from 1937-1953 professor at the University of 
Vienna and head of the Central Institute of Meteorology and 
Geodynamics ( Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik), 
1946-1951 president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. balloon 
flights in the Alps and expeditions to the Caucasus and to Central 
Asia.

!Works
Wetter und Wetterentwicklung, 1932; Foehn und Foehnwirkungen, 
1943.

!Literature
NDB.



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