Oliver Lanard Fassig | |
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| Born | April 5, 1860 |
| Died | December 6, 1936 (aged 76) Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Meteorology, Climatology, Bibliography |
| Institutions | United States Weather Bureau |
Oliver Lanard Fassig (April 5, 1860 – December 6, 1936) was an American meteorologist and climatologist who worked for the United States Weather Bureau initially as part of the Signal Corps of the United States War Department and later affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture.[1]
Oliver Lanard Fassig was born at Columbus, Ohio, on April 5, 1860, son of Mathias and Elizabeth (Lanard) Fassig.[2] He attended Ohio State University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1882. He then studied at Johns Hopkins University under the guidance of American geologist William Bullock Clark, where in 1899 he received the first PhD in meteorology ever earned in the United States.[3] His doctoral thesis was on the broad pressure relations of distinctive types of March weather over North America.[4] On September 14, 1898, he married Ann Green McCoy, of Annapolis, Maryland.[2]
- ^ Anonymous. 1937. Obituary: Oliver Lanard Fassig. Geographical Review 27(2):337.
- ^ a b Brooks, C.F. 1940. Oliver Lanard Fassig (1860-1936). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 74(6):118-120.
- ^ Koelsch, W.A. 1981. Pioneer: The first American doctorate in meteorology. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 62(3):362-367.
- ^ Fassig, O.L. 1899. Types of March weather in the United States. The relations existing between mean atmospheric pressure, the prevailing character of the weather, and the paths of storms. Doctoral thesis, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 340 pp.