Georg Heinrich Thiessen
German astronomer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Georg Heinrich Thiessen was a German astronomer. After graduating, Georg Thiessen studied physics and mathematics and received his doctorate in 1940 under Richard Becker at Göttingen Georg August University. He joined the Fraunhofer Institute of the Institute for High Frequency Research in Freiburg in Breisgau in 1943, where he met Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer. In January 1945 he was transferred to the observatory in Hamburg-Bergedorf, where he was employed as assistant and later as 'Observator' from 1946 to 1953. In 1953 he habilitated on the subject of magnetic fields of the sun, he believed in the existence of a global solar magnetic field. He was promoted to professor in 1959. On 3 of July 1961 he was killed in a frontal collision with a tram, his wife was seriously injured in this accident. A crater on the farside of the moon has been named after him since 1970.
