Guido Münch

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Guido Münch Paniagua
Born(1921-06-09)June 9, 1921
San Cristóbal de las Casas
DiedApril 29, 2020(2020-04-29) (aged 98)
Pasadena
NationalityMexican
Education
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Problems of Radiative Transfer in the Theory of Stellar Atmospheres  (1946)
Doctoral advisorSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Doctoral students

Guido Münch Paniagua (June 9, 1921 – 29 April 2020) was a Mexican astronomer and

astrophysicist
.

Biography

Münch was born in

Caltech in 1951, becoming professor there and working at the Mount Wilson and Palomar
observatories.

From 1977 to 1991, Münch was Director at the

University of Heidelberg. He also worked at the joint German-Spanish Calar Alto Observatory, and at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
in Tenerife (from 1992 to 1996).

Münch studied the theory of stellar atmospheres, stellar spectroscopy, interstellar matter, the spectroscopy of

planetology
. He worked in both observation and theory.

He died in April 2020 at the age of 98.[4]

Awards

In 1944, 1945 and 1958 Münch was named a

Third World Academy of Sciences. He was an honorary doctor of the National Mexican Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
.

In 1968, he received the

NASA Medal of Exceptional Scientific Merit for his involvement in the Mariner, Viking and Pioneer missions on infrared radiometry. (His work on the Martian atmosphere led to a critically important downward revision in estimates of the planet's atmospheric density.) In 1989, he was awarded a Prince of Asturias Award, and in the same year, the International Astronomical Union organized a conference in his honor in Granada. In 1998 he received the Spanish Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise
, with the Grand Cross.

His doctoral advisees have included

Jim Gunn, Robert A. Parker, Mónica Rodríguez, and Virginia Trimble.[2][3]

Writings

  • "Interstellar Absorption Lines in Distant Stars", Astrophys. J., 1957
  • "The Theory of Model Stellar Model Atmospheres", in Jesse Greenstein Stellar Atmospheres, University of Chicago Press 1960
  • "An Analysis of the Spectrum of Mars", Astrophys. Journal, vol. 139, 1964
  • "Galactic Structure and Interstellar Absorption Lines", in Adriaan Blaauw, Maarten Schmidt Galactic Structure, University of Chicago Press, 1965
  • "The Structure of the Atmosphere on the Major Planets", with Laurence M. Trafton, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 26, 1969, p. 813
  • "Helium Abundance on Jupiter", with Donald M. Hunten, Space Science Reviews, vol. 14, 1973, p. 433-443

External links

References

  1. ISBN 968-16-6177-X
  2. ^ a b Guido Münch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b "Guido Münch". AstroGen. American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  4. ^ Guido Münch (1921 – 2020)
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