Carl Edwin Fichtel

Background

Fichtel, Carl Edwin was born on July 13, 1933 in St. Louis. Son of Edwin Blanke and Eleanora Alice (Gutsch) Fichtel.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Washington University, St. Louis, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, 1960.

Career

Teaching and research assistant, Washington University, 1956-1959; physicist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1959-1960; section head, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1960-1968; branch head, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., since 1968; senior scientist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., since 1975. Visiting lecturer U. Maryland., 1963-1980, Adjunct Professor, 1980-1985, member commission on space astronomy and astrophysics. Member Astronomy Survey for the 1980s, NAS.

Achievements

• Carl Edwin Fichtel has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Addendum to Gamma-ray astrophysics new insight into the universe, second edition (RP 1386, October 1997) (SuDoc NAS 1.60:209477)

Membership

Fellow American Physical Society (secretary-treasurer cosmic physics division 1974-1976, chairman 1983-1984). Member American Astronomical Society (chairman high energy division 1979-1981,Rossi prize 1995), International Astronomical Union, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Carolyn Headlee.

Father:

Edwin Blanke Fichtel

Mother:

Eleanora Alice (Gutsch) Fichtel

Spouse:

Carolyn Headlee.