Fritz M. Neubauer

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Fritz Manfred Neubauer (* 1940 ) is a German geophysicist .

Neubauer received his doctorate in 1969 at the TU Braunschweig ( shock waves in an anisotropic plasma ), completed his habilitation there in 1974 and was a professor there. Since 1982 he has been Professor of Geophysics and Director of the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Cologne . In 1991 he turned down a call to the University of Göttingen.

Neubauer deals with geomagnetism, space physics, physics of planets and exploration geophysics. He was involved in the construction of magnetometers for space missions.

During the Giotto mission, he examined the magnetic field of Halley's comet . A shock wave front and an almost magnetic field-free area around the comet's core were discovered.

Neubauer is involved in the Cassini mission, in which, among other things, an atmosphere at the Saturn moon Enceladus could be detected from magnetic field measurements.

In 1995 he became President of the German Geophysical Society for two years.

In 2000 the asteroid (8634) Neubauer was named after him.

In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

In 2011 he received the Emil Wiechert Medal .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neubauer, FM; Glassmeier, KH; Pohl, M .; Raeder, J .; Acuna, MH; Burlaga, LF; Ness, NF; Musmann, G. and Mariani, F .; Wallis, MK; Ungstrup, E .; Schmidt, HU: First results from the Giotto magnetometer experiment at comet Halley, Nature, Vol 321, 1986, p.352-355
  2. ↑ Dougherty, MK; Khurana, KK; Neubauer, FM; Russell, CT; Saur, J .; Leisner, JS; Burton, ME: Identification of a Dynamic Atmosphere at Enceladus with the Cassini Magnetometer , Science, Volume 311, 2006, pp. 1406-1409
  3. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 40702
  4. ^ Anonymous: New AGU fellows . In: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union . tape 87 , no. 6 , 2006, ISSN  0096-3941 , p. 64 , doi : 10.1029 / 2006EO060009 ( wiley.com [accessed April 20, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Neubauer, Fritz M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neubauer, Fritz Manfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940