Background
Rüdiger was born on March 25, 1939 in Burg, Brandenburg, Germany.
Rüdiger was born on March 25, 1939 in Burg, Brandenburg, Germany.
1959 Abitur, 1959-1965 Study of Physics at the Universities of Marburg (Germany), Innsbruck (Österreich) and Kiel (Germany)
1969-1971 PostDoc, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
1971-1984 Research Assistant, Akademischer (O)Rat, University Tübingen, Germany.
since 1985 Professor Astrophysics, University Tübingen, Germany.
since 2004 retired.
Contributions to major missions in X-ray Astronomy: about 20 Balloon-Flights, 2 sounding rockets, contributions to satellite missions: EXOSAT, Mir-KVANT, Rosat, Abrixas, XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL. Scientific use of all international X-ray missions since 1975.
Grantee German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), DARA / DLR, German Academic Exchange Service, Volkswagen Foundation.
Committee on Space Research (Vice-Chair E since 1994), International Astron. Union (IAU), Astronomical Society (AG), German Physical Society (DPG).
Rüdiger married to Ursula Staubert and has two children.
