Original upload date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:07:11 GMT
In this first part of the interview, Prof. Reinhard Genzel (winner of the 2020 Physics Nobel Prize, together with Andrea Mia Ghez and Roger Penrose) speaks about his life and career. He shares memorie
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s about his childhood and youth, including learning physics with his father and school life. Tells about his undergraduate and graduate studies in Germany, as well as his postdoc and early career in the USA, until his return to Germany, as the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching. Traces a parallel between life in America and Europe, and more.
00:09 Childhood and Youth
06:49 School Life
09:09 Academic Life
15:52 Children
17:12 Early Career
25:00 USA x Germany
33:14 Teaching
Acknowledgments regarding the images and videos used:
- Prof. Reinhard Genzel;
- Hannelore Hämmerle;
- Tobias Herrmann;
- Max Plack Society;
- European Southern Observatory;
- International Astronomical Union;
- Shaw Prize Foundation;
- University of Stuttgart;
- California University, Berkeley;
- California Institute of Technology;
- Palomar Observatory;
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
- The Conversation;
- The Guardian;
- Diário do Poder;
- Aquaworld
- Daily News Hungary;
- Socialist Worker;
- Wikipedia.
Related videos and articles:
- “2008 ASTRONOMY” - The Shaw Prize:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo4cGR2tsP0
- E. F. J.Ring, “History of Thermology and Thermography: Pioneers and Progress”, Thermol. Int. (2012).
- J. W. Powell and M. Cardona. “Ludwig Genzel”. Physics Today 56, 12, 83 (2003).