Joachim Kuettner - Reflections at 100 Years

In an interview from August 2009, shortly before his 100th birthday, atmospheric researcher Joachim Kuettner reflects on an unexpected detour after he arrived in the United States in the late 1940s to work at the Cambridge Research Laboratories with Philip Thompson, who later became the first associate director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

More about Kuettner's remarkable career: http://www2.ucar.edu/magazine/features/seven-decades-science

Kuettner died on February 24, 2011, at the age of 101.

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