Reimar Lüst

Reimar Lüst ( born March 25, 1923 in Barmen ) is a German astrophysicist and science managers.

Biography

Lüst is the son of a Protestant pastor. Lüst visited the Wilhelm gymnasium and the Humanistic Gymnasium in Kassel, where he graduated in 1941 with the Abitur 1933-1941. Subsequently, he served from 1941 to 1943 his military service in the Navy; where he was chief engineer on a U- boat (U 528). From 1943 to 1946 he was a prisoner of war in the U.S. ( Mexia ( Texas)) and in England.

After his release Lüst studied 1946-1949 Physics at the University of Frankfurt am Main. There he received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1951 at Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker as a research associate of the conducted by Werner Heisenberg in Göttingen Max Planck Institute for Physics. Between 1955 and 1956 Lüst received a Fulbright scholarship at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago and Princeton University. In 1959 he completed his habilitation in physics from the University of Munich.

Lüst was a visiting professor of mathematics at New York University ( 1959) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961 ) and for aeronautics and astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology (1962). In 1960 he was a scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics. Because of his research in the field Astrophysics, he worked from 1962 to 1964 with the beginning of the space age as technical director at ESA 's predecessor organization ESRO, whose vice-president, he was from 1968 to 1970. Between 1963 and 1972 Lüst was director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

In 1964 he was associate professor at the University of Munich and in 1965 an honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich. From 1969 to 1972 he was chairman of the Science Council and from 1972 to 1984 President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science between 1984 and 1990 was Lüst General of the European Space Agency ( ESA). From 1989 to 1999 he held the office of President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Since 1992 he has been Professor at the University of Hamburg.

He is often referred to as a science manager Due to the combination of research and membership in numerous scientific organizations on the one hand and employees in supervisory boards of companies in the space field on the other side.

Lüst is married to journalist Nina Grunenberg Lüst. He is the father of the theoretical physicist Dieter Lüst.

Memberships

Memberships in other organizations

  • Science Council (1965-1972)
  • Member, the Board of Trustees International Space Science Institute (1995 )
  • Scientific Advisory Board at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (1997)
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Northern Institute of Technology Hamburg Harburg ( NITHH ) ( 1998-2003)
  • Chairman of the program committee Space, German Aerospace Center (DLR ) ( 1998)
  • Chairman of the Board of Governors of International University Bremen ( 1999-31. December 2004)
  • Senior member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg.

Memberships in business

  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ERNO GmbH, Bremen (1976-1984)
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Aerospace AG Munich (1990-1993)
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of Daimler Benz Aerospace AG / Daimler Chrysler Aerospace AG Munich ( 1998)

Honors

Honorary Citizenship

  • Honorary citizen of the U.S. state of Texas (January 30, 1999)
  • Honorary Citizen of the City of Bremen (November 2001)
  • Honorary Member of the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics ( DGLR )

Honorary Membership

  • Honorary Member of the German Aerospace Center (DLR )
  • Honorary Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists " Leopoldina ", University of Halle (1997)

Other honors

  • Merit 1st class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1973 )
  • Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Officer of the Legion d'Honneur ( Officier de l' Ordre National de la Légion d' Honneur )
  • Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1984 )
  • Wilhelm Exner Medal
  • Leibniz Medal of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences ( 2001)
  • Medal of Honor for outstanding service to the Science of Time Foundation
  • Joachim- Jungius Medal of Joachim- Jungius Society of Sciences
  • The asteroid ( 4386 ) Lüst is named after him.
  • Numerous honorary doctorates and honorary professorships have been awarded to him
  • Due to the 90th birthday Bremen honored him with a scientific colloquium.
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