Georg Heinrich Thiessen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German astronomer
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Place of Birth: Eddelak, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Georg Heinrich Thiessen
- Georg Heinrich Thiessen (19 January 1914 – 3 July 1961) was a German astronomer. After graduating, Georg Thiessen studied physics and mathematics and received his doctorate in 1940 under Richard Becker at Göttingen Georg August University.
- He joined the Fraunhofer Institute of the Institute for High Frequency Research in Freiburg in Breisgau in 1943, where he met Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer.
- In January 1945 he was transferred to the observatory in Hamburg-Bergedorf, where he was employed as assistant and later as 'Observator' from 1946 to 1953.
- In 1953 he habilitated on the subject of magnetic fields of the sun, he believed in the existence of a global solar magnetic field.
- He was promoted to professor in 1959. On 3 of July 1961 he was killed in a frontal collision with a tram, his wife was seriously injured in this accident.
- A crater on the farside of the moon (Thiessen) has been named after him since 1970.
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