Joseph Zähringer

Who was Joseph Zähringer?

Joseph Zähringer 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.