Kurt Walter (astrophysicist)

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Kurt Walter (born September 22, 1905 in Reutlingen , † October 16, 1992 in Tübingen ) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist .

Life

Kurt Walter was born on September 22, 1905 in Reutlingen. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Stuttgart and astronomy at the Albertus University in Königsberg , where he received his doctorate in 1928, completed his habilitation in 1932 and became a private lecturer. At the University of Berlin , Walter became a university lecturer in 1937 and an adjunct professor in 1941. In the same year the observatory in Krakow was provisionally subordinate to him . After the Second World War he worked temporarily as a librarian in Stuttgart. In 1962 Kurt Walter became professor for astronomy at the University of Tübingen . He retired in 1972. His main interest was double stars with short orbital times.

Kurt Walter died on October 16, 1992 in Tübingen.

Publications

  • Investigations on variable eclipses , in: Publications of the Königsberg observatory , No. 2, 1931
  • The motion relationships in very close binary star systems , Halle Niemeyer, 1933
  • About the librations in the VW Cephei system , 1936
  • About the mass-luminosity law taking into account the tidal deformation of the stars , in: Zeitschrift für Astrophysik, Vol. 15/5, 1938 ( online )
  • Investigations into the U Sagittae system on the basis of photometric observations in different color areas , in: Zeitschrift für Astrophysik, Vol. 16/3, 1938
  • State and structure of algol systems , in: Zeitschrift für Astrophysik, Vol. 19/3, 1940 ( online )
  • About polarization in the nebula around FU Orionis , in: Mitteilungen des Astrophysikalisches Observatoriums Potsdam , No. 10, 1941 ( online )
  • Annual report of the observatories of the General Government for the years 1940-1943 , in: Vierteljahresschrift Astronomische Gesellschaft, 79, 42, 1943
  • Ordered currents in unstable layers of great extent to stellar convection zones , in: Annales d'Astrophysique, Vol. 28, p. 648, 1965 ( online )
  • Note on the Analysis of Light Curves of Eclipsing Binaries with Dissimilar Components , in: Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 2, Issue 3, 1968 ( online )
  • Astronomy in Poland during the Second World War , in: Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 97, 270, 1987 ( online )

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 6th edition 1940/41.
  • The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory , ed. v. André Heck, Springer, 2005, ISBN 1-4020-3643-4 .
  • Horst Mauder: Kurt Walter † , in: Mitteilungen der Astronomische Gesellschaft, No. 76 (1993), p. 9f (obituary, online ).
  • The Albertus University of Königsberg: its history from the founding of the empire to the fall of the province of East Prussia. Volume 2: 1918-1945 , v. Christian Tilitzki , Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3050-05655-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Walter, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer and astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutlingen
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1992
Place of death Tübingen