Wolfhard Schlosser
Wolfhard Schlosser (born June 21, 1940 in Breslau ) is a German astronomer and author.
Life
Schlosser studied physics , mathematics , astronomy and geophysics at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1966 . From 1969, Schlosser was employed at the Ruhr University Bochum and completed his habilitation there in 1973. In 2005 he retired.
Schlosser was on the advisory board of the founding committee of the German South Pole Station . He was project manager and member of the scientific advisory board of the Second German Spacelab Mission and ESA representative for the International Space Station (ISS). As an astronomer, he was involved in scientific studies of the Nebra Sky Disc . Furthermore, Schlosser is co-founder of the Société Européene pour l'Astronomie dans la Culture (SEAC), a society for archaeoastronomy .
On March 30, 2010 an asteroid was named after him: (58896) Schlosser .
Publications (selection)
- with Theodor Schmidt-Kaler , Walter Hünecke: Atlas of the Milky Way . Astronomical Institute Ruhr University, Bochum 1974.
- with Jan Cierny: Stars and Stones. A practical astronomy of the past . Scientific Book Society , Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-11637-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfhard Schlosser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolfhard Schlosser: The Nebra Sky Disc - Man's early glimpse into the cosmos . Lecture October 22, 2008 physik.uni-marburg.de
- Interview with Prof. Wolfhard Schlosser
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Nebra Sky Disc ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2010 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. astronomie.de, accessed on December 11, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlosser, Wolfhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |