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Place of Birth: Graz, Styria, Austria
About Hans Michael Maitzen
- Hans Michael Maitzen (born 28 March 1943 in Graz) is an Austrian astronomer. After elementary (1949-1953) and secondary school attendance (1953-1961) in Graz, he began studying astronomy, mathematics and physics at the University of Graz in 1961, completing a PhD in astronomy in July 1967.
- During the last three years of his studies he was also a scientific assistant at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Graz.Thereafter he was a scientific assistant at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Bochum from 1969 until 1976.
- From then till 1985 he was scientific assistant in the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Vienna.
- In March 1980 Maitzen received his Doctor habilitatus there in astronomy.
- Since 1985 he has been a scientific advisor at the institute.
- Author of more than 200 scientific publications, he has since 1986 represented the Austrian astronomical community in its relations with the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
- In March 1989, Kurt Waldheim, the federal president of Austria, granted him the title Außerordentlicher Professor. Maitzen developed a filter-photometric tool for discovering chemically peculiar magnetic stars, which detects a distinctive flux depression in the radiation of these stars around the 520-nanometre wavelength. Maitzen is married and has four children.
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