Rudolf Schieder

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Rudolf Schieder (born June 14, 1943 in Königsberg ) is a German astrophysicist .

He was born in Königsberg as the son of the Professor of Medieval and Modern History Theodor Schieder and his wife Eva Rogalsky. In early 1944 the family fled to Dietmannsried in the Allgäu . After attending school in Cologne , where his father had been a professor since 1949, Rudolf Schieder studied physics at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1971. He completed his habilitation in 1980 at the University of Cologne , where he was professor at the 1st Physics Institute from 1990 until his retirement. In 1995 he and Gisbert Winnewisser received the Philip Morris Research Prize for the development of a sub-millimeter telescope with the world's best resolution, installed in the Cologne observatory for sub-millimeter astronomy on the Gornergrat near Zermatt .

Publications (selection)

  • Interaction of atoms with monochromatic radiation . Dissertation University of Bonn 1971 (printed 1975).
  • Contributions to high-resolution spectroscopy with continuous dye lasers . Habilitation thesis Cologne 1980.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 48, 1995, p. 288.