Background
Hildebrandsson was born in Stockholm, and educated at the Stockholm gymnasium and the university of Upsala, where he took his doctor"s degree in 1858, becoming doctor of physics in 1866.
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Hildebrandsson was born in Stockholm, and educated at the Stockholm gymnasium and the university of Upsala, where he took his doctor"s degree in 1858, becoming doctor of physics in 1866.
Uppsala University.
In 1878, he was appointed first professor of meteorology at Upsala and director of the meteorological observatory there. He retained these posts until 1906. In 1880, he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society of London, which in 1920 awarded him the Symons Gold Meda
As a meteorologist, Hildebrandsson is notable for his researches into the subject of clouds.
He denominated a new sort of cloud—Cumulus Cloud. In 1880, he was requested by the International Meteorological Committee to prepare the International Cloud Atlas, a work carried out in conjunction with Leon Teisserenc de Bort.
Many further observations were subsequently incorporated in Les bases de la météorologie dynamique (1907), in which Teisserenc de Bort again collaborated. His papers on centers of action of the atmosphere marked a great advance in seasonal forecasts.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]
He was a prominent member of the International Meteorological Committee, and for some years served as its secretary. He was also a member of many other foreign scientific societies.
In 1888, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and he was also a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics.