Elmar K. Jessberger

Elmar K. Jessberger (born April 18, 1943 in Eisenach ; † November 29, 2017 in Heidelberg ) was a German physicist , planetologist and university professor .

Jessberger studied physics at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg , he graduated in Heidelberg with a degree in physics . in 1969 onwards. In 1971 he was awarded a doctorate by the physics faculty at Heidelberg University. rer. nat. PhD. In 1981 he completed his habilitation and in 1985 he was appointed adjunct professor of physics, also at Heidelberg University. From 1971 to 1996 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In 1996 he became a university professor for experimental and analytical planetology at the Institute for Planetology at the University of Münster . In 2008 he retired.

Jessberger received a Heisenberg grant from the DFG (1979–1985) and had been a fellow of the Meteoritical Society since 1994 . The asteroid (16231) Jessberger was named after him. He was u. a. Principal Investigator of the MERTIS instrument for mineralogical mapping of the planet Mercury in the ESA's BepiColombo Mission and was visiting professor at the University of New York, Stony Brook, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Vienna.

Jessberger was married to Ulrike Jessberger. Her sons are the Hamburg lawyer Florian Jeßberger and the Zurich neurobiologist Sebastian Jessberger . Jessberger's brother was the Bochum civil engineer Hans-Ludwig Jessberger .

Web links

• Jessberger on the website of the Institute for Planetology at the University of Münster
• Publications in the NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Publications at Google Scholar (h-Index 35)
• Literature by and about Elmar K. Jessberger in the bibliographic database WorldCat

supporting documents

1. ↑ Obituary notice Elmar K. Jessberger. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutscher Verlag , December 2, 2017, accessed on December 1, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Elmar K. Jessberger in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).