Hans-Heinrich Voigt

Hans-Heinrich Voigt
Born (1921-04-18) April 18, 1921
Eitzendorf, Germany
Fields Astronomy , Astrophysics
Institutions Göttingen Observatory
Thesis Dämpfung und Mitte-Rand-Variation der Flügel der Mg.-Serie 31P-n1D auf der Sonne
Doctoral advisor Paul ten Bruggencate
Doctoral students Wolfram Kollatschny
Reinhold Kroll
Werner Landgraf
Known for Abriß der Astronomie
Notable awards
  • Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-
    Medaille (1993)
  • Göttinger Akademie der
    Wissenschaften member

Hans-Heinrich Voigt is a German astronomer and former director of the Göttingen Observatory.[1][2]

Voigt was the director of the Göttingen Observatory from 1975 to 1983.[3] He was a member of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences and was its president from 1978 to 1979.[4] In 1993 he received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal.

In 1988 an asteroid was named 4378 Voigt after him.[3]

Works

References

  1. ↑ "History of the Universitäts-Sternwarte Göttingen". Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "Literature by and about Hans-Heinrich Voigt in the catalog of the German National Library". Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  3. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1. Springer. p. 376. ISBN 9783540002383.
  4. ↑ "Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen Profile". Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  5. ↑ Voigt, Hans-Heinrich (1974). Outline of astronomy. Leyden: Noordhoff. ISBN 9789001712709.
  6. ↑ Voigt, Hans-Heinrich (1994). Das Universum : Planeten - Sterne - Galaxien ; mit 8 Tabellen. Stuttgart: Reclam. ISBN 9783150052280.
  7. ↑ Voigt, Hrsg. Hermann J. Röser; Hrsg. Hans H. (2009). Abriß der Astronomie (6., wes. überarb. u. erw. Aufl. ed.). Weinheim, Bergstr: WILEY-VCH. ISBN 9783527407361.
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