Karl-Heinz Rädler

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Karl-Heinz Rädler, 2013

Karl-Heinz Rädler (born May 14, 1935 in Riesa ; † February 9, 2020 ) was a German astrophysicist and geophysicist who is particularly known for research into cosmic magnetic fields.

Life

Rädler his doctorate in 1966 at the University of Jena to the Dr. rer. nat. From 1969 he was at the Central Institute for Earth Physics in Potsdam and from 1970 at the Central Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam. In 1980 he completed his habilitation at the Academy of Sciences (Dr. sc. Nat.).

From 1992 to 1998 he was the founding director and scientific director of the Astrophysical Institute in Potsdam (Babelsberg) and from 1992 until his retirement in 2000 he was head of the department of cosmic magnetic fields, solar and star activity . From 1994 to 2000 he was professor of astrophysics at the University of Potsdam .

Among other things, he dealt with dynamo models for the generation of magnetic fields in astrophysics and in geodynamo within the framework of magnetohydrodynamics . He dealt with it in numerous publications since the late 1960s.

Awards

In 1998 he received the Emil Wiechert Medal and the Wilhelm Foerster Prize of the Urania (Potsdam) for his achievements in popular science . In 2013 he was awarded the Karl Schwarzschild Medal .

Fonts

  • with F. Krause: Mean-field magnetohydrodynamics and dynamo theory, Pergamon Press, Akademie Verlag 1980
  • Cosmic dynamos, Rev. Modern Astron., Vol. 8, 1995, pp. 295-321
  • Mean field dynamos, in Gubbins et al. a. (Editor) Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism , Springer 2007

literature

  • H.-J. Onnen: Profiles from Potsdam and the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, Volume 3, 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to Kürschner, Deutscher Schehrtenkalender 2009
  2. ↑ Bereavement notice: Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Rädler (1935-2020). Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, accessed on February 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ For example, in the theory of a geodynamo experiment in Karlsruhe by Müller, Stieglitz 1999
personal data
SURNAME Rädler, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astrophysicist and geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesa
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2020