Gerhard Neukum
Gerhard Neukum (born February 23, 1944 in Johnsdorf , Sudetenland ; † September 21, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German planetary researcher and professor at the Free University of Berlin .
Career
Neukum studied physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and did his doctorate on the impact craters on the moon . In 1983 he completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in geophysics / planetology and was appointed professor there in 1989.
Since 1997 he has been a professor at the Institute for Geological Sciences at the Free University of Berlin . Between 1993 and 2002 he was director of the Institute for Planetary Exploration of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin-Adlershof .
During his time as director of the institute of DLR in Berlin was developed in cooperation with industrial partners a digital stereo camera ( High Resolution Stereo Camera , HRSC), which is currently on the ESA mission , Mars Express is in use and is operated by the DLR in Berlin-Adlershof. Neukum was at Mars Express as the chief scientist in the HRSC camera experiment and as a member of the camera team on the Cassini mission of NASA and ESA at Saturn and as a co-investigator on the Rosetta comet mission and the Dawn asteroid mission .
In April 1996 the asteroid (6150) Neukum was named after him.
In September 2017, the IAU named a 102 km wide Martian crater in the Noachis Terra region in honor of Neukum the "Neukum Crater".
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Neukum in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by G. Neukum in the Astrophysics Data System
- HRSC camera - extensive information, photos
- Interview with Gerhard Neukum about the HRSC camera
- In Appreciation: Dr. Gerhard Neukum (obituary of the JPL )
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Neukum (1944 - 2014) (Obituary by the Institute for Geological Sciences at the Free University of Berlin )
- DLR: HRSC and planetary researcher Gerhard Neukum (1944–2014) January 18, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.scilogs.de/astrogeo/der-kraterzaehler-gerhard-neukum-ist-tot/
- ↑ http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-11848/#/gallery/16722
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 26931
- ^ Crater Neukum named after Mars Express founder. European Space Agency, January 18, 2018, accessed January 18, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neukum, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German planetary researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Janovice v Podještědí , Sudetenland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 2014 |
| Place of death | Berlin |