Gerald Neugebauer

Gerald " Gerry " Neugebauer ( born September 3, 1932 in Göttingen) is an American astronomer Austro- German descent.

Gerry Neugebauer is the son of astronomer and mathematician Otto Neugebauer. He studied at Cornell University and received his doctoral degree in 1960 at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ). During his military service until 1962 he was stationed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He spent his academic career at Caltech, where he was a full professor since 1962 Assistant Professor and from 1970 until his retirement in 1998. The Palomar Observatory he headed from 1980 until 1994.

Neugebauer is one of the pioneers of infrared astronomy. Together with Robert B. Leighton, he performed one of the first sky survey in infrared light, the Two Micron Sky Survey, who discovered over 5500 infrared sources. According to him and Eric Becklin is the Becklin - Neugebauer object, a shrouded by dust young star in the Orion Nebula, named. Neugebauer was on the U.S. side senior scientist of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.

Honors

  • Astronomer ( 20th century)
  • Emigrant from the German Empire at the time of National Socialism
  • Americans
  • Born in 1932
  • Man
IRAS Rumford Prize Henry Norris Russell Lectureship Herschel Medal
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