About Ernst K. Zinner
Lived 1937 – 2015 (aged 78). Ernst K. Zinner was an Austrian astrophysicist and physicist.
Ernst Kunibert Zinner (30 January 1937 – 30 July 2015) was an Austrian astrophysicist, known for his pioneering work in the analysis of stardust in the laboratory. He long had a position in the United States at the Laboratory for Space Physics (later part of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he had earned his doctorate. He came to the United States in the 1960s for graduate work. In addition, Zinner regularly taught at European universities, and other American institutions.
Personal life Zinner was born on 30 January 1937 at Steyr, Austria, and applied this new technique to measure rare earth elements in thin sections of rocks and minerals.
Awards and honours 1987 Antarctic Service Medal, National Science Foundation
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Austrian astrophysicist (1937-2015)
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Ernst K. Zinner was born on 30 January 1937 in Sankt Peter in der Au.
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Ernst K. Zinner died on 30 July 2015 in St. Louis.
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Ernst K. Zinner was an astrophysicist and physicist.
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Ernst K. Zinner was Austrian.
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