Rudolph Minkowski

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birth_date = May 28 1895
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death_date = January 4 1976
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nationality = Germany
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field = astronomy
work_institutions = Palomar Observatory
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known_for = supernovae
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Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski) (May 28 1895 – January 4 1976) was a German-American astronomer. His father was the physiologist Oskar Minkowski. His uncle was Hermann Minkowski.

Rudolph studied supernovae and, together with Walter Baade, divided them into two classes (Type I and Type II) based on their spectral characteristics. He and Baade also found optical counterparts to various radio sources.

He headed the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, a photographic atlas of the entire northern sky (and down to declination -22°) up to magnitude 22.

He co-discovered the Apollo asteroid 1620 Geographos, and also discovered Planetary Nebula M2-9.

He won the Bruce Medal in 1961. Minkowski crater on the Moon is named after him and his uncle.

Bibliography

*Citation
id = PMID:16590587
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16590587
last=Minkowski
first=R
publication-date=1960 Jan
year=1960
title=INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE EFFORTS DIRECTED TOWARD OPTICAL IDENTIFICATION OF RADIO SOURCES.
volume=46
issue=1
periodical=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
pages=13-9

External links

* [http://www.plicht.de/chris/12minkow.htm Short Biography]