Ulf von Rauchhaupt

Ulf von Rauchhaupt (* 1964 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German science journalist .

Life

Ulf von Rauchhaupt was born in 1964 in Frankfurt am Main and laid his 1985 high school at the humanistic grammar school at St. Stephen in Augsburg from. After studying at the Technical University and the Philosophical University in Munich , he received his doctorate in 1997 at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich . From 1998 to 2000 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and from 2000 to 2001 at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The time at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science was funded by a Reimar Lüst grant from the Max Planck Society.

Professional activities

Ulf von Rauchhaupt has been the editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 2001 , where he and Jörg Albrecht have headed the Sunday newspaper's science department since 2008 .

Awards

• 2002: Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism from the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group in the field of print
• 2006: Journalism Prize of the German Mathematicians Association
• 2009: Hanno and Ruth Roelin Prize of the Astronomical Society
• 2009: Werner and Inge Grüter Prize for Science Communication

Publications

• Wittgenstein's clarinet. Present and future of knowledge. Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005. ISBN 978-3-833300127 .
• The ninth continent: the scientific conquest of Mars. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; 2009. ISBN 978-3-100629388 .
• The order of substances: a journey through the world of chemical elements. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; 2009. ISBN 978-3-596-18590-0 .
• together with Tilman Spreckelsen: Saints for those in a hurry. When they help, who they are. 100 short portraits. Herder Verlag, Freiburg; 2010. ISBN 978-3-451-06258-2
• In the stars. The 88 constellations in portrait. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; 2013. ISBN 978-3-596-19653-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulf von Rauchhaupt in the catalog of the German National Library
• FAZ.NET - The editorial team: [1] .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see Annual General Meeting of the Max Planck Society, press release of June 17, 1998, IDW-Online
2. ^ Kurt Cobain's Lithium Song , review by Matthias Wagner in Research Frankfurt 1/2010, page 83

literature

• "Stephania" - annual publication of the abbey for all former students and all friends of St. Stephan. No. 81, December 15, 2009, p. 115.