Held As Enemy Alien
According to the New York Times on 19 January 1942, Dr. K.O. Lange, German-born instructor at Harvard University's Blue Hills meteorological observatory, had been in Federal custody since December 8, 1941 as an enemy alien, according to members of the Harvard faculty. Dr. Lange was formerly a physicist for the German government. Dr. Lange was an internationally recognized expert in long-range weather forecasting and the theory of gliding and soaring. He was 39 years old at that time and had been in the United States since 1931, formerly as a faculty member at MIT. The FBI refused to confirm Dr. Lange's arrest.
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