Johannes Geiss

Johannes Geiss (4 September 1926 – 30 January 2020) was a German physicist.[1]

Johannes Geiss
Born4 September 1926
Słupsk, Poland
Died30 January 2020(2020-01-30) (aged 93)
NationalityGerman
OccupationPhysicist

Biography

Geiss was born in 1926 in modern-day Poland, the son of farmers Hans Geiss and Irene Wilk. In 1955, he married Carmen Bach.

Geiss studied physics in Göttingen from 1947 to 1950. He published his doctoral thesis in 1953, titled Isotopenanalysen an „gewöhnlichem Blei“. He then conducted research on geochronology at the University of Bern and University of Chicago. From 1958 to 1959, Geiss was an associate professor at the University of Miami before returning to Bern, working there until 1991. From 1995 to 2002, he was co-director of the International Space Science Institute. In 2019, a bronze statue of Geiss was erected on the University of Bern campus by Horst Bohnet.[2]

Johannes Geiss died on 30 January 2020 at the age of 93.[3]

Awards and Honors

References
  1. "Espace: Le créateur de l'expérience suisse d'Apollo 11 est décédé". lematin.ch (in French). 5 February 2020.
  2. "The beautiful lunar toy from Bern". swissinfo.ch. 19 July 2019.
  3. "Der Mann mit dem Sonnenwindsegel auf dem Mond: Johannes Geiss, Pionier der Weltraumforschung, ist tot". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 4 February 2020.
  4. "Johannes Geiss". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017.
  5. "Johannes Geiss". Academia Europaea.
  6. "Verleihung der Albert Einstein Medaille 2001". Einsteinhaus Bern (in German). 13 August 2003.
  7. "Astrophysicist receives Albert Einstein medal". swissinfo.ch. 11 June 2001.
  8. "Johannes Geiss - Honors Program". American Geophysical Union.
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