Joachim Trümper#
| Membership Number: | 562 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching (MPE)
- 1975 - 2001 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
- 1971 - 1975 Full Professor, Chair of Astronomy, Director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Tübingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Extraterrestrial physics
- Cosmic rays
- Magnetic field measurements
- X-ray astronomy
- X-ray emissions from comets
Honours and Awards
- 2001 Honorary professor emeritus at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
- Honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- 2020 Honorary member of the German Physical Society (DPG)
- 2016 Tycho Brahe Prize
- 2012 The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, Japan
- 2006 Marcel Grossmann Award, Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2003 Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Bavarian Order of Merit
- 2002 Basic Science Award, International Academy of Astronautics
- 1998 X-ray plaque from the city of Remscheid
- 1997 Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Aachen and Munich Prize for Technology and Applied Natural Sciences
- 1966 Affiliated with the Doctor Carl Arthur Pastor Foundation
- 1995 honorary member, Physical Society Frankfurt
- 1995 Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Max Planck Research Prize for international cooperation from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society
- 1995 Stern-Gerlach-Medal of the German Physical Society
- 1994 Scientific member of the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- 1994 Foreign Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society, London
- 1994 Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the Astronomical Society
- 1994 COSPAR Award for Outstanding Contributions to Space Science
- 1989 Founding member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Salzburg
- 1989 Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), Paris
- 1988 Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1987 Tsiolkovsky Medal of the USSR Cosmonautical Federation
- 1986 Federal Cross of Merit
- 1979 X-ray medal of the city of Würzburg
