Hans Jörg Fahr

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Hans Jörg Helmuth Fahr (born November 2, 1939 in Hanover ) is a German astrophysicist .

Career

Fahr studied physics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Bonn from 1959 and graduated in February 1964 with a diploma. In July 1966 he received his doctorate with the thesis Ion Movement in Electric Fields Under the Influence of Charge Exchange Impacts . He was a research assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Bonn. In June 1971 he completed his habilitation in astrophysics . In June 1978 he was appointed university professor and in 2005 he retired .

From 1979 to 1982 he was President of Commission No. 42 of the International Astronomical Union .

Publications (selection)

  • Time and cosmic order. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, Vienna 1995. ISBN 3-446-18055-9 .
  • The illusion of the world formula: what does science really know? Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-86137-985-6 .
  • With or without the big bang. That is the question. 2nd edition, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-66247711-3 .

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