Wolfgang Hillebrandt
Wolfgang Hillebrandt (born February 25, 1944 in Rerik ) is a German astrophysicist .
Live and act
After studying physics and mathematics at the University of Cologne , he did his doctorate there in 1973 under Peter Mittelstaedt with a thesis on gravitating neutrons: balance and microscopic stability . In 1977 he completed his habilitation at the TU Darmstadt . Since 1978 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics near Munich and in 1996 became one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich . He is an honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich .
His scientific research focuses on numerical simulations of supernova explosions.
In 1977 he was awarded the Academy Prize for Physics of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and in 1982 the Physics Prize of the German Physical Society . In 2014 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .
Friedrich-Karl Thielemann is one of his doctoral students .
Criticism of the International Space Station
Wolfgang Hillebrandt said on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS) in 2018 that the project was "the greatest waste of mankind". He criticized the fact that the station, which had cost 150 billion euros up to that point, hardly had any scientific benefit. A really good university costs around 1 billion euros a year and would bring science a lot further. The public funds that ESA would use to operate the ISS were not available elsewhere for space research.
Fonts
- with Ewald Müller: Supernovae in the supercomputer , Physik Journal, May 2004
- with Ewald Müller, Hans-Thomas Janka Enigmatic Supernovae , Spectrum of Science, July 2005
- with Bruno Leibundgut (editor): From twilight to highlight - the physics of supernovae . Springer, Berlin 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Hillebrandt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website at the Max Planck Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from the DLF interview on Nov. 20, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hillebrandt, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rerik |