Hans-Heinrich Voigt

Hans-Heinrich Voigt (18 April 1921[1] – 17 November 2017) was a German astronomer and director of the Göttingen Observatory.

[2][3] Voigt was ordinary professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen and directed the Göttingen Observatory from 1963 to 1986, when he retired.

[4][5] He was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and its president from 1978 to 1979.

[6] In 1993 he received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal.

He died on 17 November 2017 at the age of 96 in Göttingen.