Hartmut Graßl (born 18 March 1940) is a German climate scientist and a former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.
Born in Salzberg, near Berchtesgaden, Graßl studied physics and meteorology at LMU Munich, and earned his PhD there in 1970. In 1981, he became professor of theoretical meteorology at Kiel University, and in 1984, he became director of the Institute of Physics at the GKSS Research Centre. In 1988, he became professor at the University of Hamburg and director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He retired in 2005.
Honours Young Scientist Award of the , 1971 Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, 1988 , 1991 Member of the Academia Europaea, 1994 German Environmental Prize, 1998 Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2002 Bavarian Order of Merit, 2008
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