Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

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The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) is part of the Max Planck Society which operates 80 research facilities in Germany. It is a research institute located in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany 20 km north east of Göttingen. 2 research groups work in the exploration of the sun and heliosphere, and the exploration of planets and comets.

Contents 1 History 2 Degree programme 3 Directors of the Institute 4 Names of the Institute 5 Reference 6 External links

[edit] History

The history of the institute is closely related to Walter Dieminger, who was head of the Luftwaffe test center at Rechlin at the Müritz from 1934 on. After renaming to the centre for radio transmission in 1943 and moving to Leobersdorf in 1944, the institute was united with Frauenhofer institute from Freiburg at Ried in the Innkreis. After the war an allied commission decided to move the institute to Lindau am Harz, where already buildings of the Technical University of Hanover existed. The convoy arrived 2nd and 3rd of March 1946. During 1948 the radio institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society was transferred from Fraunhofer Society to the Max Planck Society and renamed to Institute for Ionosphere Research in 1949. In 1950 the US air force paid the built up for an ionospheric echolot system. The full transfer from FI to MPG and the appointment of W. Dieminger as director followed by the transfer of the MPI of Stratosphere research from Weisenau near Ravensburg to Lindau and another renaming to Max Planck Institute for Aeronomics completed the built up. After retirement of W. Dieminger in 1974 the focus changed from atmosphere to space research. The Institute participated in a long row of space missions like Galileo, Ulysses, Cluster, SOHO, Cassini-Huygens, Rosetta, Mars Express Venus Express and was responsible for most of the camera system of the Giotto mission to Comet Halley. The biggest changes were a result of German unification and resulted in the retraction of two of the four directors of the institute in 1998 and 2004 after the retirement of Hagfors and Rosenbauer. The institute was renamed to Max Planck Institute of Solar System Research in 2004 after the last director concerned with Ionosphere and Stratosphere research was retired. The two remaining groups, the one of director S. Solanki dedicated to the sun and heliosphere and the other of U. Christensen dedicated to planets and comets form the institute.

[edit] Degree programme

• The MPI for Solar System Research offers the PhD programme, International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond, together with the University of Göttingen and the Technical University of Braunschweig.

[edit] Directors of the Institute

• 1955-1964 Julius Bartels^{[1] [2]}
• 1955-1975 Walter Dieminger ^{[3] [4] [5]}
• 1965-1971 Alfred Ehmert^[6]
• 1965-1977 Georg Pfotzer ^[7]
• 1974-1990 William Axford ^[8]
• 1992-1998 Tor Hagfors ^[9]
• 1977-2004 Helmut Rosenbauer ^[10]

• 1977 Vytenis Vasyliunas
• 1999 Soli K. Solanki
• 2002 Ulrich R. Christensen

[edit] Names of the Institute

• 1934 Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe (test cite of German air force)
• 1943 Zentralstelle für Funkberatung (centre for radio transmission)
• 1949 Max Planck Institut für Ionensphärenforschung (Max Planck institute for ionospheric research)
• 1958 Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie (Max Planck institute for aeronomics)
• 2004 Max Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (Max Planck institute for solar system research)

[edit] Reference

• (2006) "60 Jahre Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung". Max-Planck Forschung (1): 82-83.

1. ^ W. Dieminger (1964). "Julius Bartels (17. 8. 1899–6. 3. 1964)". Naturwissenschaften (10): 229 - 230. DOI:10.1007/BF00641354.
2. ^ J. Bartels (1962). "Zur Vorgeschichte der Weltraumforschung". Naturwissenschaften (14): 313 - 323. DOI:10.1007/BF00602195.
3. ^ Dieminger W., Kohl H. (1962). "Effects of Nuclear Explosions on the Ionosphere". Nature 193,: 963 - 964.
4. ^ Dieminger W. (1952). "On the Cause of Excessive Absorption in the ionosphere on Winter Days". J. Atm. Terr. Phys. 2 (6): 340-349.
5. ^ Year book Max Planck Society 2001
6. ^ Ehmert A., Erbe H., Pfotzer G., Anger C.D., Brown R.R. (1960). "Observation of Solar Flare Radiation ans Modulation Effects at Balloon altitudes, July 1959". J. Geophys. 65: 2685-2694.
7. ^ Pfotzer, G. ; Ehmert, A. ; Erbe, H. ; Keppler, E. ; Hultqvist, B. ; Ortner, J. (1962). "A Contribution to the Morphology of X-ray Bursts in the Auroral Zone Creator" 67: 575-585.
8. ^ S. M. Krimigis, T. P. Armstrong, W. I. Axford, C. O. Bostrom, C. Y. Fan, G. Gloeckler6and L. J. Lanzerotti (1977). "The Low Energy Charged Particle (LECP) experiment on the Voyager spacecraft". Space Science Reviews 21: 329 - 354. DOI:10.1007/BF00211545.
9. ^ Kosch MJ, Hagfors T, Nielsen E (1998). "A new digital all-sky imager experiment for optical auroral studies in conjunction with the Scandinavian twin auroral radar experiment". Rev. Scientific Instr. 69: 578-584.
10. ^ H. Balsiger*, K. Altwegg, F. Bühler*, J. Geiss, A. G. Ghielmetti, B. E. Goldstein, R. Goldstein, W. T. Huntress, W.-H. Ip, A. J. Lazarusparallel, A. Meier, M. Neugebauer, U. Rettenmund, H. Rosenbauer, R. Schwenn, R. D. Sharp, E. G. Shelley, E. Ungstrup, D. T. Young (1986). "Ion composition and dynamics at comet Halley". Nature 321: 330-334. DOI:10.1038/321330a0.

[edit] External links

• Official site

Coordinates: 51°38′52″N, 10°7′3″E