Ewine van Dishoeck

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Ewine van Dishoeck

Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck (born June 13, 1955 in Leiden ) is a Dutch astronomer and chemist who deals with chemical processes in interstellar dust and gas clouds and the formation of stars and planets from dust clouds. She is a professor at the observatory at Leiden University .

Life

Van Dishoeck studied chemistry and mathematics at the University of Leiden (bachelor degrees in mathematics and chemistry) with a diploma in chemistry in 1980 and a doctorate in 1984 with Harm Jan Habing on the subject of photodissociation and excitation of interstellar molecules . As a post-doctoral student , she was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study, and was a visiting professor at Princeton University in 1987/88 . From 1988 to 1990 she was Assistant Professor of Cosmochemistry at Caltech . She then returned to the Netherlands to work as a lecturer and, from 1995, as professor for molecular astrophysics in Leiden. There she was director of the Raymond & Beverly Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics .

In 2000 she was a Miller Research Professor at Berkeley. She has been an External Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics since 2007. She also took over the scientific management of the Dutch Research School for Astronomy (NOVA).

It combines theoretical chemical investigations and modeling with laboratory experiments and comparison with astronomical data.

In 1993 she received the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award from the American Physical Society (APS), the Gold Medal from the Dutch Chemical Society in 1994, the Bourke Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2001 and the Spinoza Prize in 2000 . In 2006 the asteroid (10971) van Dishoeck was named after her. She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences , which she made an Academy Professor in 2012, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . In 2013 Ewine van Dishoeck was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . For 2015 she was awarded the Albert Einstein World Award of Science , for 2018 the James Craig Watson Medal and the Kavli Prize for Astrophysics. The latter was presented to her on September 4, 2018. She is the bearer of the Karl Schwarzschild Medal 2019.

Her husband, the Dutch astronomer Tim de Zeeuw , was Director General of the European Southern Observatory from 2007 to 2017 .

Fonts

  • Editor with DJ Jansen, MR Hogerheijde: Molecules in Astrophysics: Probes and Processes , Leiden Observatory Press 1996
  • Editor: Molecules in Astrophysics: Probes and Processes , Kluwer 1997
  • Editor with Young C. Minh: Astrochemistry: from molecular clouds to planetary systems , Proc. IAU Symp., 2000

Web links

Commons : Ewine van Dishoeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Ewine F. van Dishoeck at academictree.org, accessed on 30 January 2018th
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Ewine van Dishoeck (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck. Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2015. In: consejoculturalmundial.org. June 10, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ International Astronomical Union | IAU. Retrieved September 6, 2018 .
  5. ^ Director General. Prof. Tim de Zeeuw. ESO, accessed April 6, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Dishoeck, Ewine van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dishoeck, Ewine Fleur van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch astronomer and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer