Nico Marquardt
Nico Marquardt (born May 24, 1994 in Potsdam ) is a German politician , supervisory board and management consultant . Through his research work The Killer Asteroid 99942 Apophis , he gained national fame.
Life
Marquardt was born in Potsdam in 1994 as the son of Lieutenant Colonel Harald Broh and the nurse Apolonia Marquardt and attended the Humboldt Grammar School in Potsdam.
In April 2008, at the age of 13, he took part in the Jugend forscht competition with the research paper The Killer Asteroid 99942 Apophis , in which he examined the probability of a collision between the asteroid Apophis and a geostationary satellite and the consequent consequences on the probability of impact with the Earth calculated. On the day of the award, Marquardt was interviewed by the Bild-Zeitung , which then published an article with a probability that the asteroid would hit the earth in 2036 more than 100 times more than he had calculated. The international press reported thereupon in almost all countries, although Marquardt denied the representation of the Bild-Zeitung.
Since January 2013 Marquardt has been Global Advisor for Social Media at Mars One and owner of the management consultancy Rabbit . Marquardt has been a member of the supervisory board of EWP ( Energie und Wasser Potsdam GmbH ), a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Potsdam , since August 2014 .
politics
Marquardt ran as an SPD candidate for local elections during his Abitur in May 2014 and was elected to the Potsdam city parliament with the fourth strongest result of his party , making him the youngest member of all German state capitals in Germany. In November 2015, Marquardt filed a criminal complaint against the federal chairman of the right-wing extremist party Der III. Way , Klaus Armstroff , following an order against refugees sedition .
Award
As part of the Jugend forscht competition , he received first prize in the geo and spatial sciences category, the special award from the Ministry of Education and Research and the special prize from the German Aerospace Center .
Others
The astronomer Fred Watson on Marquardt:
“This schoolboy has done a marvelous job. A hundred years ago people used logarithms and hand-calculators and slide rules to work out asteroid orbits, […] But it says a lot for the world that we live in that a 13 year-old schoolboy can download the right software to do the job and actually find errors in Nasa's work. It is quite extraordinary. "
“This school boy did an amazing job. 100 years ago, people used logarithms, calculators and slide rules to calculate the trajectories of asteroids. […] It says a lot about the world we live in if a 13-year-old student can actually find errors at NASA with the help of the right software. This is quite extraordinary. "
Web links
Reports about Nico Marquardt
- Guido Berg: Nico and the end of the world . In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 12, 2008 ( online ).
- Alok Jha: Full marks for effort . In: The Guardian . April 16, 2008 ( online ).
- Christoph Seidler: The hustle and bustle of asteroid threat: How a 13-year-old almost disgraced NASA . In: Spiegel . April 17, 2008 ( online ).
- Lewis Page: Schoolboy's asteroid-strike sums are wrong . In: The-Register . April 16, 2008 ( online ).
- V. Kumara Swamy: The mother of all sciences . In: The Telegraph India . May 29, 2008 ( online ).
- Jana Haase: 16-year-old student is researching “twisting space-time” . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung . October 21, 2010 ( online ).
- Jana Haase: “I don't want to fly to Mars” Nico Marquardt is the youngest city councilor . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung . May 28, 2014 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Parliamentary group page of the SPD Potsdam. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 9, 2015 ; accessed on October 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Biography of Nico Marquardt (accessed October 27, 2015)
- ↑ "I have calculated the end of the world". Bild Zeitung , accessed March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ NASA refutes story of boy who predicted asteroid collision. Radio Canada , accessed March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Ragazzino Calcola la fine del mondo. Corriere newspaper , accessed on March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Niño inglés corrige Calculos a la NASA. CNN , accessed March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ 13-year-old corrects NASA's asteroid figures. China Daily , accessed March 27, 2015 .
- ^ Un petit génie allemand met la NASA en échec. RTL France , accessed on March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ NASA says German whiz-kid got it wrong. ABC , accessed March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Schoolboy corrects NASA 'killer asteroid' maths'. The Age , accessed March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Global Advisor Social Media Mars One (accessed October 27, 2015)
- ↑ Supervisory Board of the EWP energy group (accessed on October 27, 2015) ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Nico Marquardt is the youngest city councilor , at PNN, May 28, 2015 (accessed October 27, 2015)
- ↑ SPD city councilor from Potsdam reports right-wing extremist party chairman (accessed on November 25, 2015)
- ↑ SPD man reports neo-Nazis (accessed on November 25, 2015)
- ↑ Jugend forscht: Special prize for Nico Marquardt , at PNN, April 8, 2008 (accessed October 27, 2015)
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Fred Watson via Marquardt, April 17, 2008 (accessed October 27, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marquardt, Nico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), management consultant and supervisory board |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |