Horst Rademacher (journalist)
Horst Rademacher (born May 12, 1954 in Duisburg ) is a German science journalist and geophysicist.
After his military service, Rademacher worked in the local editorial office of the Neue Ruhr-Zeitung. He studied astronomy and geophysics, earned his diploma in Cologne and Bonn, and wrote his diploma thesis in Cologne on earthquakes in the Rhineland. For several years he was a science editor for the Kölner Stadtanzeiger. From 1984 he was on a fellowship from the Robert Bosch Foundation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he was a Knight Fellow. In 1986 he moved to California (Orinda) and reported from there for FAZ , for which he was science editor for many years.
He worked with broadband seismometers at the Graefenberg observatory near Erlangen, was involved in the seismic investigations of the European Geotraverse and in seismic measurements in Antarctic waters on the Polarstern and, together with others, installed the first digital broadband seismometer measuring station on an active volcano (the Semeru im East Java). He also worked on Kilauea in Hawaii, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Alaska ( Mount St. Augustine ), and China.
In 2005 he received the Walter Kertz Medal .
Fonts
- Editor and author with Hans-Peter Harjes: The earth in sight: the geosciences on the threshold of the 21st century, Springer 1999
- At the edge of the crater: the uncanny fascination of volcanoes, Berlin Verlag 2010
- Californian impressions, Societäts-Verlag 1993
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rademacher, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German science journalist and geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |