Norbert Langer (astrophysicist)
Norbert Langer (born March 25, 1958 in Peine ) is a German astrophysicist.
Langer studied at the University of Göttingen , where he received his diploma in 1983 and his doctorate in 1986 (mixing processes in massive stars and their influence on stellar development and nucleosynthesis). In 1984 he received a DAAD scholarship at the University of Tokyo. He then worked as a research assistant in Göttingen until 1992. He was at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching (1993 to 1996 Heisenberg Fellow), conducted research from 1996 at the University of Potsdam and since 2000 at the University of Utrecht and is a professor at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn , at the he received a Humboldt Professorship in 2009 . He is the managing director of the Argelander Institute.
Langer uses computer simulation to theoretically investigate the development of massive stars up to supernova explosions. More recently, he has also investigated precursor systems of gamma-ray flashes and the fusions of black holes and neutron stars detected during gravitational wave observations.
In 1986 he was the first to receive the Ludwig Biermann Prize of the Astronomical Society .
Fonts (selection)
- Life and Death of the Stars, CH Beck 1995
- with Justyn R. Maund, Paul A. Crowther, Hans-Thomas Janka: Bridging the Gap: From Massive Stars to Supernovae, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, Volume 375, 2017, Special Issue (Introduction), Arxiv
- with Andrew Lewan a. a .: Gamma-ray burst progenitors, Space Science Reviews, Volume 202, 2016, pp. 33–78, Arxiv 2016
- Presupernova Evolution of Massive Single and Binary Stars, Annual Review Astron. Astroph., Volume 50, 2012, pp. 107-164, Arxiv
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langer, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torment |