Max Robitzsch

Max Robitzsch (2 February 1887[1] – 10 June 1952[2]) was a German meteorological scientist and university professor.

He invented the "Robitzsch Actinograph", a type of pyranometer[3][4] and wrote numerous scientific books and articles.

He also undertook an expedition into the Scandinavian arctic to research atmospheric phenomena, spending the 1912/1913 winter in Spitsbergen, Norway.

During the Cold War, he there undertook numerous extensive radio sounding studies of the atmosphere with weather balloons, reputedly at the behalf of the Soviet occupation forces in East Germany.

[9] During January to May 1950, he was director of the Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg,[8][10] before later on becoming professor at (and possibly the director of)[citation needed] the Geophysical Institute of Leipzig, later subsumed in the University of Leipzig.