Heinrich Friedrich Siedentopf
Heinrich Friedrich Siedentopf (born January 12, 1906 in Hanover , † November 28, 1963 in Tübingen ) was a German astronomer .
Life
Siedentopf was associate professor for astronomy in 1933 and full professor for astronomy at the University of Jena between 1940 and 1946 . He worked at the University Observatory and the Astrophysical Institute . The focus of his work was astrophysics and the theory of periodically changing stars. In 1949 Siedentopf was appointed professor for astronomy at the University of Tübingen, at the same time he became deputy director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Research in Freiburg im Breisgau. In Tübingen, he rebuilt the chair for astronomy in the post-war years. In 1960 he arranged for the new astronomical institute to be built on Waldhäuser Höhe. Until his untimely death in 1963, Siedentopf played a key role in setting up the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
Since 1955 he was a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .
The crater 'Siedentopf' (♁22 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N, 135 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E) on the Earth's moon was named after him and in 1993 the small planet (5375) Siedentopf, discovered in 1989 .
Publications
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: Fundamentals of Cosmology, Göttingen 1928
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: Development in Space, Göttingen 1928
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: Star spectra, in: G. Joos (Hg.), Hdwb. D. Natural science IX, 1933, pp. 572-79.
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: Construction and movement of the universe, star structure and star development, in: S. Newcom u. R. Engelmann (ed.), Popular Astronomy, 1948.
- Associate Editor: Problems in Cosmic Physics since 1949
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: Grundriss der Astrophysik, Stuttgart, 1950
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: Astrophysical instruments, physics of the single star, solar physics, interstellar matter, all in: H. Westphal (ed.), Physikal. Wb., 1952.
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: performance of telescopes, influence of the earth's atmosphere, in: Landolt-Börnstein (ed.), Numerical Values and Functions, Vol. 3, Astronomy and Geophysics, 1952, pp. 22-34.
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: On Astronomical Observing Conditions in South Africa and Chile, Comparision between South Africa and Chile, in: Report to the ESO Council from the ESO Commission for Site-Testing, 1963
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: Laws and history of the universe, Tübingen 1961
- Siedentopf, Heinrich: Mensch und Weltall, Btrr., Ed. v. H. Elsässer, 1966 (W-catalog):
literature
- Hans Elsässer : Heinrich Siedentopf. Communications of the Astronomical Society, Vol. 17 (1964), p. 33. (Obituary)
- Ernst Öpik : Heinrich Siedentopf. Irish Astronomical Journal, Vol. 9 (1969), p. 165. (Obituary, English)
- Reinhard E. Schielicke: Siedentopf, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 333 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Friedrich Siedentopf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by H. Siedentopf in the Astrophysics Data System
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Heinrich Siedentopf. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 21611
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siedentopf, Heinrich Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1963 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |