Reinhard Genzel

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Reinhard Genzel
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Reinhard Genzel (born March 24, 1952 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) is a German astrophysicist . He is director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich. In 2020, Genzel and the American astronomer Andrea Ghez will receive half of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, now known as Sagittarius A * .

life and work

Reinhard Genzel is the son of Professor of Solid State Physics Ludwig Genzel (1922–2003) and his wife Annerose. After graduating from the Berthold-Gymnasium in Freiburg , he studied physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn (Diploma 1975) and was in 1978 Peter Georg Mezger on for Radio Astronomy Max Planck Institute PhD . He then went to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts and was a Miller Fellow from 1980 to 1982 and, from 1981, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley , where he was a professor in 1985/86 and from 1999 to 2008 held a full professorship. In 1986, Genzel was appointed a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich . Since 1988 he has been honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 1999 he has been a full professor at the University of California, Berkeley , but has since been retired there. Reinhard Genzel played a key role in the development of infrared and submillimeter astronomy . He and his team succeeded, first at the La Silla Observatory (from 1992) and then at the Very Large Telescope, by observing the orbits of stars near the center of the Milky Way over many years, to prove that there is a supermassive black hole of around 4.3 Millions of solar masses . Astronomers working with Andrea Ghez at the Keck Observatory also managed to do this independently . Both received half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery , the other half to Roger Penrose . .

Awards

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Web links

Commons : Reinhard Genzel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Genzel - Curriculum Vitae. Reinhard Genzel, October 6, 2020, accessed on October 6, 2020 .
  2. ^ Robert Sanders: UC Berkeley's Reinhard Genzel awarded Nobel Prize in Physics. In: Berkeley News. October 6, 2020, accessed October 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Reinhard Genzel (E): Biography. Retrieved October 6, 2020 .
  4. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, October 6, 2020, accessed on October 6, 2020 .
  5. ^ Robert Sanders: Leopoldina member Reinhard Genzel receives Nobel Prize for Physics. In: Press release of the Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences. October 6, 2020, accessed October 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 54827
  7. ↑ Article from October 26, 2009 from "Il Sole 24 Ore" (Italian) ( Memento from January 2, 2010 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Member entry of Reinhard Genzel (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 6, 2016.
  9. ↑ see http://royalsociety.org/people/reinhard-genzel/
  10. ↑ Press release 367/2013 of the Federal Government, see http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Pressemitteilungen/BPA/2013/11/2013-11-25-bkm-orden-pour-le-merite.html ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Genzel, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe