Karl Otto Lange

Dr. Karl Otto Heinrich Lange (1903 – 1973), a German-born physicist, was a pioneer in aviation and atmospheric science. In 1931 He joined the meteorology faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and worked with Professor C. G. A. Rossby, head of the Institute's Meteorology department. Together they investigated methods of recording weather data, and conducted studies of clouds and the vertical structure of the atmosphere.

Lange eventually worked both with MIT and Harvard University's Blue Hills meteorological observatory, where he developed a radio-metrograph.