Horst Uwe Keller
Horst Uwe Keller (born January 25, 1941 in Prague ) is a German physicist who deals with comet research and planetary research.
From 1960, Keller studied physics at the University of Hamburg and the University of Munich with a diploma in 1967 and a doctorate in 1971 in Munich under Ludwig Biermann in the field of comet research ( Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics ). As a post-doctoral student he spent three years in the USA (among other things, he advised the Skylab astronauts at NASA on comet observation) and then completed his habilitation in 1977 at the University of Göttingen . From 1976 to 2006 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Katlenburg-Lindau (formerly MPI for Aeronomy), where he was involved in many space projects such as Giotto (1986) on Halley's Comet , where the camera came from the MPS Management of basement. He was involved in the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, Venus Express to Venus, Mars Express , Mars Pathfinder , Mars Polar Lander and Phoenix to Mars, SMART-1 to Earth's moon, DAWN to asteroids and the asteroid / comet mission Rosetta .
He was Principal Investigator at the Halley Multicolour Camera in Giotto, the IR Infrared Spectrometer for SMART 1, OSIRIS Science Imagers at Rosetta and the Framing Camera at DAWN.
In 1990 he received the Stern-Gerlach Prize and in 2007 the Christaan Huygens Medal of the European Geosciences Union . In 1997 he and his group received the Golden Lion as a special award for the IMP camera in the Mars Pathfinder project. The asteroid (5938) cellar is named after him. He has also received awards from NASA and ESA .
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| SURNAME | Keller, Horst Uwe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |