Siegfried J. Bauer

Siegfried Josef Bauer (born September 13, 1930 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian space researcher and emeritus full professor at the University of Graz .

Life

Siegfried J. Bauer grew up in Griffen ( Carinthia ) and graduated from the Stiftsgymnasium St. Paul im Lavanttal in 1948 . From 1948 to 1953 he studied physics , geophysics and meteorology at the University of Graz and received his doctorate in 1953 with a dissertation on ionospheric research under Otto Burkard . After completing his doctorate , he emigrated to the USA as part of the military project " Paperclip " and worked at the US Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey , until 1960 . His research areas included weather radar , sferics , analysis of the ionospheric effects of hurricanes and atomic bomb explosions , as well as studies of the earth's ionosphere with the Diana lunar radar .

In 1961 he moved to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , where he was engaged in researching the ionospheres of Earth, Venus and Mars with the help of rockets and satellites. He held a number of management positions, including a. as head of the department for ionospheric and radio physics and most recently as deputy director of science. In 1981 he was appointed full professor of meteorology and geophysics at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz , where he worked until his retirement in 1998, for a period also as dean of the natural science faculty. At the same time he was department head and deputy director of the Graz Institute for Space Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Siegfried Bauer is an expert in planetary aeronomy , which deals with atmospheric properties in the vicinity of the boundary with space, and is the author of over 165 scientific publications. He was also involved in experiments on the American Pioneer Venus and Mars Global Surveyor missions, as well as on the European Huygens probe , which landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005 as part of the Cassini mission .

The Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer personally congratulated Bauer on his 85th birthday in a letter and praised his scientific achievements and contributions.

He was given a special honor by naming an asteroid. The International Astronomical Union named an asteroid discovered in 1991 after him, (73701) Siegfriedbauer .

Works

• Siegfried J. Bauer: Physics of Planetary Ionosperes . Springer, Berlin [a. a.], 230 pp., 1973 (Physics and Chemistry in Space, 6); ISBN 3-540-06173-8 .
• Siegfried J. Bauer and Helmut Lammer: Planetary Aeronomy. Atmosphere Environments in Planetary Systems . Springer, Berlin [a. a.], 207 pp., 2004 (Physics of Earth and Space Environments); ISBN 3-540-21472-0 .
• Siegfried J. Bauer: Solar System: Planets, Atmospheres and Life . Stepan S. Moskaliuk (Ed.), TIMPANI, Kyiv, 295 S., 2003; (Classics of world science, 7); ISBN 978-3-7001-3185-4 .
• Siegfried J. Bauer: Between Venus & Mars. Memories of a space explorer on two continents . The Wolf-Verlag, St. Michael i. Lavanttal, 111 pp., 2005; ISBN 3-901551-93-X .
• Siegfried J. Bauer: The planetary atmospheres , pp. 605–666, in: Textbook of Experimental Physics. 7. Earth and planets , L. Bergmann and C. Schaefer [start], Wilhelm Raith (ed.), De Gruyter, Berlin [u. a.], 2. actual. Ed., 727 pp., 2001; ISBN 3-11-016837-5 .

Awards (selection)

• 1970 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1974 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
• 1978 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• 1983 Real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1986 member of the International Academy of Astronautics
• 1991 Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (together with Willibald Riedler )
• 1992 member of the Academia Europaea
• 1996 Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (member of the Curia for Science)
• 2000 David Bates Medal of the European Geosciences Union
• 2006 Great Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria
• 2011 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

literature

• Reinhart Leitinger (Ed.): Congratulatory letter on the occasion of the 60th birthday of o. Univ. Prof. Dr. Siegfried J. Bauer . Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Graz, 101 S., 1990.
• Reinhart Leitinger and Helmut O. Rucker (Eds.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Mr. em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Siegfried J. Bauer . Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Graz, and Institute for Space Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, 146 pp., 2000.
• Helmut O. Rucker and Reinhart Leitinger (Eds.): Festschrift on the Occasion of the 75th Birthday of em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Siegfried J. Bauer . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 274 pages, 2005; ISBN 3-902081-01-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal President Dr. Heinz Fischer congratulates Univ.Prof. Dr. Siegfried Josef Bauer's birthday. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
2. ↑ JPL Small-Body Database Browser
3. ^ "Curia for Science and Art"
4. ↑ All of the Great Gold Medals awarded since January 1st, 1970 with a deadline of: December 5th, 2006. ( Memento of the original of March 7th, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4 MB) Answer to Styrian Parliament.