Hans-Walter Rix
Hans-Walter Rix (born January 16, 1964 in Erlangen ) is a German astronomer and astrophysicist . Since 1999 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg . He is the son of the linguist Helmut Rix .
Rix is an expert in the structure and evolution of galaxies . He studied in Freiburg , Munich and Tucson (Arizona) , where he obtained his doctorate in 1991 at the University of Arizona supervised by Simon White on the subject of "Disk Components in Early Type Galaxies". He was a Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1991 to 1994 and a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching from 1994 to 1995. This was followed by a position as Assistant and Associate Professor at the Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona bis Late 1998.
Since January 1999 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and since 2000 honorary professor at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Heidelberg University .
From 1996 he was a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). Rix has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2007 .
In 2013 the asteroid (200750) Rix was named after him.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans-Walter Rix in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short CV on the MPG website (accessed on August 18, 2014)
- ↑ CV of Rix at the MPI for Astronomy (accessed on May 23, 2008)
- ↑ List of professors at the Faculty of Physics a. Astronomy at the University of Heidelberg (accessed on May 23, 2008)
- ^ Member entry by Hans-Walter Rix at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 31, 2014.
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 85914
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| SURNAME | Rix, Hans-Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |