Erika Boehm-Vitense
Erika Böhm-Vitense (born June 3, 1923 in Curau , Schleswig-Holstein , † January 21, 2017 ) was a German-American astronomer . She is known for her work on the Cepheids and stellar atmospheres.
Erika Helga Ruth Vitense studied physics in Tübingen from 1943, in 1945 she went to Kiel, where she studied with Albrecht Unsöld . In 1951 she received her doctorate from the University of Kiel . For her work on the mean state variables of the stellar atmosphere as a function of effective temperature and luminosity , she received a prize for the best doctoral thesis. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington , whose astronomy department she joined in 1968. At the same time, her husband Karl-Heinz Böhm was professor of astronomy there. Böhm-Vitense was awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Prize for Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society in 1965 and the Karl Schwarzschild Medal in 2003.
Fonts
- Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics , 3 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-34869-2
Web links
- Laudation on the award of the 32nd Karl Schwarzschild Medal (English)
- Erika Helga Ruth Bohm-Vitense (obituary notice) (English)
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| SURNAME | Boehm-Vitense, Erika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Curau , Schleswig-Holstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2017 |