Markus Pössel
Markus Pössel (* 1972 ) is a German physicist (gravitation, cosmology), astronomer and science journalist.
Markus Pössel, who had the astrophysicist Olaf Störmer as a teacher at high school, studied astronomy at the University of Hamburg from 1992 onwards, with his doctorate in 2003 on quantum gravity ( hidden symmetries in five-dimensional supergravity ). He wrote his dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, where he had been since 1997. There he was also active in public relations (preparation for the Einstein year). At the Einstein exhibition in Berlin in 2005, he was co-curator of the Department of World Views in Modern Physics . In 2007 he was Senior Science Advisor at the World Science Festival in New York City for one year. He has headed the House of Astronomy since 2009 and public relations at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg since 2010 . He also teaches at Heidelberg University.
Among other things, he developed the popular science web portal Einstein online on the special and general theory of relativity. Among other things, he wrote for Spectrum of Science , the web portal Science in Schools and Stars and Space .
He was co-author with Jürgen Ehlers of the additions to the new edition of Max Born's classic book Einstein's Theory of Relativity (Springer 2001, 2003). In the partial translation of Road to reality by Roger Penrose , he wrote the bridging chapters. and he advised on the German translation of Stephen Hawking's Das Universum in a Nutshell .
Pössel is an author in the German language Wikipedia .
In 2007 he received the Hanno and Ruth Roelin Prize for Science Journalism.
Books
- Fantastic science: about Erich von Däniken and Johannes von Buttlar, Rowohlt 2000
- The Einstein window. A journey into space-time, Hoffmann & Campe 2005
Web links
- Page at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
- His blog is relatively easy at Spektrum
- Homepage
- Interview at Real Scientists.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Einstein online
- ↑ Science in Schools
- ↑ Roger Penrose: The Path to Reality: Partial Translation for Beginners, Translator Anita Ehlers, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 2010
- ↑ User: Markus Pössel. In: Wikipedia. Wikimedia Germany. Society for Free Knowledge eV, October 4, 2018, accessed on June 7, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pössel, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German science journalist, gravitational and astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |