# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-dorno
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:06:35.909Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-dorno"
name: "Carl Dorno"
slug: "carl-dorno"
description: "Carl Wilhelm Max Dorno was a Prussian-born businessman and amateur meteorologist who settled in Davos, Switzerland for the recovery of his only daughter from tuberculosis. Interested in the effect of climate on health, he established a pioneering observatory, now known as the Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos (PMOD), for the study of solar radiation. He pioneered a field that has been termed as physiological, medical or biological climatology. Ultraviolet radiation was at the time also referred to as \"Dorno radiation\". The observatory continues to function as the PMOD World Radiation Centre."
tagline: "German scientist (1865–1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Dorno.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1865-08-03"
deathDate: "1942-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.07
  momentum:             3.478260869565216
  historical:           6.343737333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Dorno"
    title: "Carl Dorno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "كارل دورنو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Dorno"
    title: "Carl Dorno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Dorno"
    title: "Carl Dorno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Dorno"
    title: "Carl Dorno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Dorno"
    title: "Carl Dorno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8E"
    title: "カール・ドルノ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump