Education
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
He made important contributions to astrophysics and plasma physics, discovering the Biermann battery. He predicted the existence of the solar wind which in 1947 he dubbed "solar corpuscular radiation". He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1961.
Asteroid 73640 Biermann is named in his honor.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.