About Hans-Heinrich Voigt
Lived 1921 – 2017 (aged 96). Hans-Heinrich Voigt was a German astronomer, university teacher and physicist.
Hans-Heinrich Voigt (18 April 1921 – 17 November 2017) was a German astronomer and director of the Göttingen Observatory.
Voigt was ordinary professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen and directed the Göttingen Observatory from 1963 to 1986, when he retired. In 1993 he received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal.
He died on 17 November 2017 at the age of 96 in Göttingen. In 1988 an asteroid was named 4378 Voigt after him.
Works
Outline of Astronomy (1974) Das Universum (1994) Abriß der Astronomie (2012)
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German astronomer (1921–2017)
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Hans-Heinrich Voigt was born on 18 April 1921 in Eitzendorf.
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Hans-Heinrich Voigt died on 17 November 2017 in Göttingen.
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