Hans Schmidt (astronomer)
Hans Schmidt (born July 14, 1920 in Remscheid ; † July 5, 2003 in Bonn ) was a German astronomer .
Life
Hans Schmidt, who was born in Remscheid and moved to Bad Godesberg with his parents in 1935 , passed his Abitur at the local pedagogy in 1939 . In the same year Schmidt turned to studying natural sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , the following year he switched to studying physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ; in 1942 he received his doctorate as a Dr. rer. nat.
After working in industry, Hans Schmidt took up an assistant position at the observatory at Bonn University in 1945, where he was appointed observer in 1954 and director in 1966. Hans Schmidt completed his habilitation in 1951 as a private lecturer in the subject of astronomy, in 1958 he was promoted to extraordinary professor, in 1964 to scientific council and professor , in 1966 to full professor (as successor to Friedrich Becker ). In 1985 he retired .
Hans Schmidt, who devoted himself in particular to the fields of photometry , stellar statistics and close double stars , was a member of the Astronomical Society , the International Astronomical Union and the German Physical Society . Hans Schmidt, who married Renkhoff, who was born in 1943 and with whom he had three sons, died in 2003 just before he was 83 years old.
Fonts
- Atmospheric extinction at the Hoher List Observatory, University Observatory, Bonn, 1958
- Comments on the question of the usability of multicolor photometry in stellar statistics, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Bonn, 1958
- With Tibor Herczeg: Investigations on VW Cephei, Dümmler, Bonn, 1960
- With Tibor Herczeg: Photoelectric observations on 31 Cygni (coverage 1961/62), Universitäts-Sternwarte, Bonn, 1962
- With Frank Gieseking: Variable stars in star associations, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, 1977
- With Wolfram Neutsch, Wilhelm Seggewiß: The shell of the Wolf-Rayet component of the double star HD 152270, Dümmler, Bonn, 1979
- Astronomers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: their life and work, 1819-1966, Bouvier, Bonn, 1990
literature
- August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? : das Deutsche who's who, Volume 42 , Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, 2003. ISBN 3-7950-2032-8 . Page 1246.
- Hans Schmidt . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003. 19th edition. Volume II: K - Scho. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , page 2940.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary for Hans Schmidt July 14, 1920 - July 5, 2003 ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Remscheid |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 2003 |
| Place of death | Bonn |