Josef Zähringer (physicist)

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Josef Zähringer , also Joseph, (born March 15, 1929 in Schönenbach (Furtwangen) , † July 22, 1970 ) was a German physicist.

Life

Zähringer, the son of a mechanic, passed his Abitur in 1949 at the Fürstenberg high school in Donaueschingen . Immediately afterwards, he studied physics, mathematics, chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Freiburg and the University of Göttingen with a diploma in 1954, then was an assistant in Freiburg at the Physics Institute and received his doctorate there in 1956 (dissertation: Argon as a residual core in meteorites ). As a post-doctoral student he was at Brookhaven National Laboratory until 1958 and then assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In 1963 he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg (habilitation thesis: Isotopic Effect and Frequencies of Noble Gases in Stone Meteorites and on Earth ) and became a member of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in 1964 and Director of the Institute in 1965. From 1967 he was honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg. He died in a traffic accident.

He dealt with cosmochemistry, including the analysis of the content of noble gases in meteorites and lunar rocks to determine how long they were exposed to cosmic rays or the solar wind. Since his time at Brookhaven National Laboratory, he has worked with Oliver Schaeffer, who later went to Stony Brook University. In 1967 he was accepted into the team of scientists by NASA, who were the first to examine the lunar rocks of the Apollo mission, and because he accidentally touched the rock, he was also in quarantine with the astronauts in 1969. In 1964 he dealt with the collection of cosmic dust with rockets and was therefore invited to Moscow.

The Zähringer moon crater is named after him, as is a street in Furtwangen-Schönenbach.

In 1964 he received the Gustav Hertz Prize of the German Physical Society .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A moon crater bears his name, Südkurier, February 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Hertz price
personal data
SURNAME Zähringer, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zähringer, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönenbach (Furtwangen)
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1970