Gustav Andreas Tammann
Gustav Andreas Tammann , completely Gustav Alfred Andreas Tammann-Jundt (born July 24, 1932 in Göttingen ; † January 6, 2019 in Basel ) was a German astronomer .
Live and act
Tammann studied astronomy in Basel and Göttingen. During his student days he joined the Swiss Zofingerverein . In 1963 he went to the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatory and began a longstanding collaboration with Allan Sandage .
In 1972 he became a professor at the University of Hamburg . From 1977 until his retirement he was professor and head of the Astronomical Institute at the University of Basel .
Tammann was particularly concerned with the cosmic distance scale, the Hubble constant , and related to it with cosmic distance indicators such as supernovae and Cepheids . Tammann and Sandage took values of 50 to 60 for the Hubble constant in the 1990s, while a US school around de Vaucouleurs took values of 80 to 100, supported in part by observations with the Hubble Space Telescope .
Gustav Andreas Tammann was also active in genealogy and religious orders . He was widowed and had two children. His father was the physician Heinrich Tammann , his grandfather the chemist Gustav Tammann .
Honors
- 1991 Full member of the Academia Europaea
- 1993 Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Albert Einstein Medal
- 2000 Tomalla Prize
- 2001 namesake for the asteroid (18872) Tammann
- 2005 Karl Schwarzschild Medal
literature
- Eva Grebel, Friedrich-Karl Thielemann: Gustav Tammann-Jundt (July 24, 1932– January 6, 2019). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for the year 2019. Heidelberg 2020, pp. 212–215 ( online ).
Web links
- Publications by GA Tammann in the Astrophysics Data System
- Literature by and about Gustav Andreas Tammann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website tammann.ch
Remarks
- ↑ Schweizerischer Zofingerverein, Schweizerischer Altzofingerverein (Ed.): List of Members 1997. Zofingen 1997, p. 26. (Available in the Swiss National Library , call number SWR 1338.)
- ↑ In an interview with Bild der Wissenschaft in 1996, Tammann advocated 55, which corresponds to an age of the universe of 18 billion years
- ↑ Genealogy and religious orders from www.tammann.ch, accessed on November 1, 2018
- ^ Gustav Andreas Tammann in the membership directory of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 43047
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tammann, Gustav Andreas |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tammann-Jundt, Gustav Alfred Andreas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 2019 |
Place of death | Basel |