Karl-Heinz Schmidt (astrophysicist)
Karl-Heinz Schmidt (born April 3, 1932 in Calbe , † December 4, 2005 in Potsdam ) was a German astronomer.
Schmidt studied astronomy in Jena , received his doctorate there in 1962 and completed his habilitation in 1970 (on the cosmogony of interstellar dust). From 1978 to 1982 he was a full professor of astrophysics at the Jena University Observatory and from 1982 to 1990 director of the Central Institute for Astrophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Potsdam. Afterwards he worked at the newly founded Astrophysical Institute in Potsdam until his retirement in 1998 . He was a member of the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.
He dealt in particular with extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology, with star clusters, the local group and other galaxy clusters and with interstellar matter.
He was a member of the Leopoldina .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry of Karl-Heinz Schmidt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 26, 2017.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Karl-Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calbe |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 2005 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |