PROF. F. M. EXNER

Abstract

FELIX M. EXNER, professor of geophysics in the University of Vienna, director of the Zentral anstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Vienna, and joint editor with S¼ring of the “Meteorologische Zeitschrift”, died in Vienna on Feb. 7. Exner, who was a son of the physiologist Sigmund Exner, was born in Vienna on Aug. 23, 1876. He was educated at the University of Vienna, where he graduated as Ph.D. in 1900. After ten years as assistant at the Zentralanstalt, he became professor of cosmical physics at the University of Innsbruck in 1910, returning to Vienna in 1917 to take up the post of director of the Zentralanstalt and professor of geophysics.