Wilfried Tost
Wilfried Tost (born December 24, 1952 in Bad Oldesloe , Schleswig-Holstein , † January 12, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician and astronomer .
Wilfried Tost attended the Neumünster Technical High School until 1972. He studied mathematics and computer science at the TU Berlin. 1980–1992 he worked first as a project manager, then as a department manager in software development at H. Berthold-AG. From 1992 he worked as an IT manager at the Institute for Planetary Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) . Here he was involved in the scientific evaluation of the data from planetary missions and took part in observation campaigns of the institute for meteor sighting in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. He communicated the results of these investigations as well as other topics of space travel and planetary research to a broad public at universities, schools, observatories and other educational institutions and published them in magazines (e.g. Interstellarum , Issues 38-81).
From 1994 to 2000 Wilfried Tost was 2nd chairman of the sponsoring association of the Planetarium am Insulaner and the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory . In 2006, after Adolf Voigt , he took over the management of the Berlin Moon Observers Working Group . He digitized the Berlin photographic moon atlas and converted it into an interactive form on CD-ROM in 2001 and 2002 (from 2002 also for the Internet).
In July 2002 he was honored with the asteroid (13334) Tost ( list of asteroids, numbers 13001 to 13500 ).
From 1988 he lived with his wife and son in Berlin-Spandau. He was buried in the "In den Kisseln" cemetery.
Web links
- Asteroid 13334 Tost (1998 SX60) @JPL Small-Body Database Browser
- Publications by W. Tost in the Astrophysics Data System
- Fascinated by the moon: Wilfried Tost has died. interstellarum newsletter, issue 205 from January 24, 2014
- The interstellarum moon man Wilfried Tost has died. Magic of the stars. Nico Schmidt's astronomy blog
- Wilfried Tost at Researchgate.net
- Wilfried Tost , wfs.berlin
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ Death report Wilfried Tost in: memoria-vestri ( Memento from March 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Website of the Berlin moon observer
- ↑ Wilfried Tost @ planetarium-berlin.de (accessed March 12, 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tost, Wilfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Oldesloe , Schleswig-Holstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 2014 |
| Place of death | Berlin |