Reimar Lüst#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 195 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Reimar Lüst passed away March 31, 2020.
Positions Held
- Since 1992 Professor at the University of Hamburg
- 1989 - 1999 President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1984 - 1990 Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA)
- 1965 Honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich
- 1963 - 1972 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
- 1968 - 1970 Vice President of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO)
- 1962 - 1964 Scientific Director of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO)
- 1960 Scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics
- 1959 Lecturer in physics at the University of Munich
- 1955 - 1956 Fulbright Fellow at the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago and at Princeton University
- 1951 Fellow and assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, Göttingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics and astrophysics
- Origins of the planetary system
- Solar physics
- Physics of cosmic rays
- Plasma physics
- Hydrodynamics
Honours and Awards
- Wilhelm Exner Medal
- Adenauer-de Gaulle Prize
- Weizman Award for Science and Humanities
- Officer of the French Légion d’Honneur
- Grand Federal Cross of Merit of the German Republic
