Wladimir Köppen
German meteorologist (1846–1940)
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He gave every place on Earth a letter code. Köppen's climate classification—the Aw, Cfa, BSk shorthand still printed in atlases—turned weather into a global taxonomy, a grid you could compare across continents.
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Born in 1846 in Russia, Wladimir Köppen studied in St. Petersburg before relocating to Germany and Austria, where he spent most of his working life. In 1884 he proposed a system for classifying the world's climates—a framework that, with adjustments, remains the standard more than a century later. He contributed across geographies: meteorology, botany, the structure of the atmosphere. He even coined the term "aerology" for the study of the upper air. He died in 1940, having organized the planet's weather into a language still spoken.
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