Joseph Zähringer

Joseph Zähringer (often written "Josef", March 15, 1929 – July 22, 1970) was a German physicist.

From 1949 until 1954 he attended the Universität Freiburg, studying physics, mathematics, chemistry and mineralogy. In 1955 he became an assistant at the university, and in 1956 he came to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. By 1958 he joined the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany as an assistant. He eventually became the director of the institute in 1965.

His contributions to astronomy included the study of gas isotopes in meteorites and lunar materials. The Zähringer crater on the Moon was named for him.

External links

* [http://edoc.mpg.de/62408 Max Planck society] brief biography (in German).
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?return_req=no_params&&author=Zaehringer,+J&db_key=AST Astronomy/Planetary Database] entries.