Hasinger, Günther

LC control no.	nr 89000985
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hasinger, Günther *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Germany United States
Associated place	Hawaii
Birth date	1954
Place of birth	Oberammergau (Germany)
Field of activity	Astrophysics X-ray astronomy Black holes (Astronomy)
Affiliation	University of Hawaii at Manoa. Institute for Astronomy Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik Astrophysikalische Institut (Potsdam, Germany) Universität München
Profession or occupation	Astrophysicists
Found in	His Beobachtung des Crab im harten Röntgenlicht, 1984: t.p. (Günther Hasinger, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik) DDB Web OPAC, June 17, 2008 (Hasinger, Günther, 1954- ) Astronomy's limitless journey, 2015: ECIP title page (Günther Hasinger) ECIP data (director of the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; world leader in the field of X-ray astronomy and in the study of black holes; before coming to Hawai`i in 2011, was director of the Max Planck Institutes for Extraterrestrial Physics and Plasma Physics; PhD from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; began his research career in astrophysics) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii WWW site, July 1, 2015 (in 1984 earned PhD in astronomy from Ludwig Maximilian University; was director of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam from 1994 to 2001; in 2001 appointed as director of the High-Energy-Group at MPE; in 2008 became scientific director at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics; currently director of Institute for Astronomy; born in Oberammergau, Germany in 1954)