Johannes Peter Mehltretter
Johannes Peter Mehltretter (born April 7, 1934 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † August 17, 1982 ) was a German physicist and astronomer .
He was born the son of a study assistant and after attending school in Freiburg, Gaggenau and Heidelberg he passed his Abitur in Freiburg in 1954. This was followed by studying physics and astronomy in Freiburg and Heidelberg, which he completed in Heidelberg in 1962 with a doctorate under Hans Kienle .
In the same year he came to the Fraunhofer Institute in Freiburg, today's Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics , where he was given the technical and scientific management of the spectrostratoscope project initiated by Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer . The balloon-borne telescope then took flight in 1975. He also created vacuum test telescopes and headed the project for the construction of the tower telescope at the Teide observatory . He also worked on the design of the Large European Solar Telescope and spent a year at the Sacramento Peak Observatory , where he began working on solar granulation .
Mehltretter was married and had two sons.
The asteroid (1968) Mehltretter is named after him.
Works
- with Wolfgang Mattig and Alvo von Alvensleben: Spectrostratoscope project: Sun research with stratospheric balloons . Federal Ministry for Research u. Technology, Specialized Information Center for Energy, Physics, Mathematics, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 1978.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Peter Mehltretter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by JP Mehltretter in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituary of the Astronomical Society
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mehltretter, Johannes Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1982 |