MG 11 · 2006
Joachim Trümper
Joachim Trümper is an X-ray astronomer associated with compact objects and the ROSAT mission.
1933, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
“For his outstanding scientific contributions to the physics of compact astrophysical objects and for leading the highly successful ROSAT mission which discovered more then 200,000 galactic and extragalactic X-ray sources.”
MG XI, Berlin, Germany
Work
X-ray astronomy reveals hot plasma, compact objects, and energetic processes invisible to optical telescopes.
Trumper led ROSAT, an all-sky X-ray mission that detected hundreds of thousands of galactic and extragalactic sources.
ROSAT transformed X-ray source catalogs and expanded the observational basis for compact-object astrophysics.