Reinhard Breuer

Reinhard Breuer (* 1946 ) is a German astrophysicist and science journalist.

Breuer studied physics and mathematics at the University of Würzburg , the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , the University of Maryland in College Park and the University of Oxford . There he received his doctorate in 1974 on gravitational radiation from black holes. He then spent six years as a post-doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich, where he began to turn to science journalism, and completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He was press spokesman for the MPI for Plasma Physics , science editor at Geo and at Daimler-Benz in the technology communication department in Stuttgart. In 1998 he became editor-in-chief of Spektrum der Wissenschaft , which he remained until 2010. From 2014 to 2018 he was a member of the Council for Information Infrastructures .

Fonts

• Arrows of time. About the fundamentals in nature , Ullstein 1987
• with Hans Lechleitner The silent blow , Ullstein 1983
• The anthropic principle , Ullstein 1997 (first Meyster Verlag 1981)
• Gravitational perturbation theory and synchrotron radiation , Lecture Notes in Physics 44, Springer Verlag 1975
• Contact with the Stars , Umschau Verlag 1978
• Editor The flap of the butterfly's wings. A new worldview through chaos research , DVA 1993

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Breuer in the catalog of the German National Library
• About Dr. habil. Reinhard Breuer. Spectrum of science 
• Biography. Scilogs: Via the blog, archived from the original on March 23, 2013 .