Ludwig Biermann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German astronomer
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Place of Birth: Hamm, Free State of Prussia, Germany
About Ludwig Biermann
- Ludwig Franz Benedict Biermann (March 13, 1907 in Hamm – January 12, 1986 in München) was a German astronomer, obtaining his Ph.D.
- from Göttingen University in 1932.He made important contributions to astrophysics and plasma physics, discovering the Biermann battery.
- He predicted the existence of the solar wind which in 1947 he dubbed "solar corpuscular radiation". He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1961.
- He won the Bruce Medal in 1967 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1974. Asteroid 73640 Biermann is named in his honor.
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