Reuven Ramaty
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Reuven Ramaty (1937—2001) was a Hungarian astrophysicist who worked for 30 years at NASA's NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre. He was a leader in the fields of solar physics, gamma-ray line spectrometry, nuclear astrophysics, and low-energy cosmic rays. Ramaty was a founding member of NASA's High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager which has now been renamed the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager in his honour. This was the first space mission to be named after a NASA scientist and was operational from 2002 until 2018. The Online Archive of California holds over 400 entries for documents, papers and photographs published by and of Ramaty and his work. Ramaty made many contributions in the field of astrophysics and solar physics. He was given the Goddard Lindsay Award in 1980 and had a tribute dedicated to his work at the University of Maryland in 2000.
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Died | 8th of April 2001 (age 64) Silver Spring, Maryland |
Education | Bachelor of Science in Physic from Tel Aviv University PhD on Planetary and Space Physics from The University of California, Los Angeles |
Occupation(s) | 1967-1969 Post-doctoral research associate, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
1969-2001 Astrophysicist, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (government employed) 1980-1993 Head of Theory Office, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (government employed) 1974-1977 Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters 1977-1978 Chairman of The American Physical Society, Astrophysics division 1984-1985 Chairman of The American Physical Society, High Energy Astronomy Division 1986-1989 Divisional councillor for astrophysics, American Physical Society (APS) |
Known for | Work in high energy astrophysics, NASA’s RHESSI project was named in his honour. |
Awards | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation the Senior U.S. Scientist Award 1975
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award 1980 Lindsay Award, Goddard Space Flight Center 1981 and the 2001 Yodh lifetime Prize 2001 |