Hans-Heinrich Voigt

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Hans-Heinrich Voigt (born April 18, 1921 in Eitzendorf (Hilgermissen) near Hoya ; † November 17, 2017 in Göttingen ) was a German astronomer and head of the Göttingen University Observatory .

Life

Voigt was the son of a pastor and the family moved via Bethel to Celle , where Voigt graduated from high school in 1939 and then studied astronomy in Göttingen, interrupted from military service from 1941 to 1945. Voigt received his doctorate in astronomy in Göttingen in 1949 with a dissertation on magnesium lines in the solar spectrum ( Supervisor: Paul ten Bruggencate ) and was then research assistant in Kiel with Albrecht Unsöld , at the Lick Observatory in California (1951/52) and assistant in Göttingen. In 1956 he completed his habilitation. From 1958 he was first an observer and then scientific advice at the observatory in Hamburg-Bergedorf with Otto Heckmann and from 1963 head of the Göttingen University observatory and professor in Göttingen. In 1986 he retired .

From 1968 to 1971 he was Vice-Rector, Rector and Vice-Rector of the University of Göttingen . 1973 to 1976 he was President of the Astronomical Society , then a member of the board. From 1964 to 1977 he was president of the recently founded Gauß Society and from 1987 to 2001 its managing director ( Carl Friedrich Gauß was the first director of the University Observatory in Göttingen and Voigt was his seventh successor). In this role he organized many of the Gauß celebrations and exhibitions for his 200th birthday in 1977.

He worked on solar physics , including the solar atmosphere, and built the outdoor observatories in Locarno (1960) and Tenerife ( Observatorio del Teide ), where the Locarn telescope moved in 1985. From 1953 to 1968 he wrote numerous reports for the annual astronomical report . He was co-editor of the Fischer Lexikon (s) Astronomie and is the author of the well-known textbook Abriß der Astronomie .

He was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and was its president from 1978 to 1979. He was a member of the Leopoldina and the Braunschweig Scientific Society . In 1993 he received the Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal .

Between 1965 and 1991 he published the seven astronomy volumes of Landolt-Börnstein ( J. Springer-Verlag ). In 1991 and 1992 he published Karl Schwarzschild's “Collected Works” in three volumes .

The asteroid (4378) Voigt , discovered in 1988, is named after him.

Fonts

  • Damping and center-edge variation of the wings of the Mg.-series 3 1 P-n 1 D on the sun dissertation
  • Outline of Astronomy. BI Verlag Mannheim, 1969, 5th edition, Spektrum Verlag 1991, 6th edition, edited by Hermann-Josef Röser, Wiley / VCH 2012
  • The universe - planets, stars, galaxies , Reclam 1994
  • Publisher (with Karl Stumpff ): Fischer Lexikon Astronomie , Fischer Taschenbuch, first 1957
  • The little book of the universe , Bechtermünz 1996

Web links

References

  1. ↑ Göttinger Tageblatt, Eichsfelder Tageblatt, Göttingen, Eichsfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany: Astronomer Voigt died. Retrieved November 25, 2017 .
  2. ^ AG membership directory
  3. ↑ His predecessors were Wilhelm Klinkerfues , Wilhelm Schur , Karl Schwarzschild , Johannes Franz Hartmann , Hans Kienle , Paul ten Bruggencate.
  4. ↑ History of the Göttingen University Observatory
  5. ^ Entry of the collected works in the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Hans-Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Eitzendorf (Hilgermissen) near Hoya
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 2017
Place of death Goettingen