Florian Goebel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Florian Goebel

German astronomer

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1972

Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 10-Sep-2008

Profession: astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Karl Florian Goebel (18 October 1972 — 10 September 2008) was a German astrophysicist attached to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.
He had also been a member of DESY, a German-based research center that develops and runs several particle accelerators and detectors, most notably the ZEUS project. At the time of his death he was managing the MAGIC-II telescope project.
His death led to the suspension of the official inauguration date for MAGIC-II, originally set for 19 September 2008.