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Mar 15, 1929 Schönenbach, Baden Württemberg, Germany Died on 22 Jul 1970 (aged 41)
German physicist
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About Joseph Zähringer
- Joseph Zähringer (often written Josef, March 15, 1929 – July 22, 1970) was a German physicist. From 1949 until 1954 he attended the Universität Freiburg, studying physics, mathematics, chemistry and mineralogy.
- In 1955 he became an assistant at the university, and in 1956 he came to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.
- By 1958 he joined the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany as an assistant.
- He eventually became the director of the institute in 1965.
- His contributions to astronomy included the study of gas isotopes in meteorites and lunar materials.
- The crater Zähringer on the Moon is named after him. At Brookhaven National Laboratory Dr.
- Zahringer worked with Dr.
- Oliver Schaeffer's cosmochemistry group applying mass spectrometry techniques to the study of rare gases in meteorites.
- These studies were largely related to determining the exposure ages of meteorites to cosmic rays in space.
- Dr.
- Zahringer contributed much of the mass spectrometer technology from the MPI-Heidelberg.
- From this period until his untimely death Dr.
- Zahringer collaborated with Dr.
- Schaeffer who had moved on to found the Earth and Space Sciences Department at Stony Brook University.
- This collaboration included work on the Apollo 11 & 12 missions.
