Rudolph Minkowski
Rudolph Minkowski · Science & Medicine
Astronomer; supernovae and radio galaxies
1895, Strasbourg, Germany (now France) — 1976, Berkeley, California, United States
Germany · United States
Rudolph Minkowski is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Astronomer; supernovae and radio galaxies
Minkowski was a German-American astronomer who, with Walter Baade, classified supernovae into types I and II and identified the optical counterparts of powerful radio galaxies such as Cygnus A, foundational work in extragalactic astronomy. He emigrated to the United States after the Nazis dismissed him from Hamburg for being Jewish, and joined the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories. He came from a distinguished Jewish family (nephew of mathematician Hermann Minkowski).
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Astronomer; supernovae and radio galaxies
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