Werner Kolhörster
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (28 December 1887 – 5 August 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer of research into cosmic rays.
Kolhörster was born in
Repeating the
Kolhörster continued his physics studies at the
In 1928–29,
In 1930, Kolhörster started the first institute for the study of cosmic rays in Potsdam, with financial assistance from the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He became director of the Institut für Hohenstrahlungsforschung in Berlin-Dahlem in 1935, where he was appointed an ordinary professor.[1]
Kolhörster was killed in a car crash in Munich.[1] The crater Kolhörster on the Moon is named in his memory.
References
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- ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
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- ^ Staff (February 5, 2000). "From the February 1, 1930, issue". Science News. Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved 2007-05-18.