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title: "Friedrich Pukelsheim"
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entity_kind: "person"
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canonical_name: "Friedrich Pukelsheim"
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first_seen: "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["The IMS Bulletin",[["entity-richard-mcpeters|Richard McPeters"]],"ozone hole discovery history","statistics (apportionment methods)","primary-source-vs-secondary-reconstruction"]
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Statistician at the Universität Augsburg, known in his own field for work on apportionment methods and optimal design, who as Corresponding Editor of *The IMS Bulletin* solicited and published [[entity-richard-mcpeters|Richard McPeters]]'s 1990 letter recounting NASA's internal 1984 investigation of the Antarctic ozone anomaly. That correspondence — preserved on Pukelsheim's own university page — is the primary record this vault's ozone-hole myth-correction ultimately traces to, 27 years before a popular science blog (RealClimate, 2017) arrived independently at a compatible but less precise account, apparently without citing him.

## References
- [[claim-mcpeters-1990-letter-dates-opt-investigation-to-july-1984]]
- [[claim-opt-abstract-reported-ozone-anomaly-late-1984-december-unconfirmed]]
- [[claim-south-pole-dobson-station-error-delayed-opt-ozone-confirmation]]
- Related hubs: [[entity-richard-mcpeters]]