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Rudolf Kippenhahn (24 May 1926 – 15 November 2020)[1] was a Germanastrophysicist and science author.
Rudolf Kippenhahn was born inPernink,Czechoslovakia. He originally studied mathematics and physics at theUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg before changing to Astronomy. From 1975 to 1991, Kippenhahn was director of theMax Planck Institute For Astrophysics inGarching,Munich,Germany. After 1991, Kippenhahn was an active published author inGöttingen, trying to popularise astronomical science research, in the same vein asStephen Hawking's writing, for which he won theBruno H. Bürgel prize. His books covered such diverse topics as astronomy, cryptology and atomic physics. In 2005, Kippenhahn was honoured by theRoyal Astronomical Society with theEddington medal for his scientific research into the computation of the structure of star and of stellar evolution. A diagram displaying how the interior of a star evolves from the zero age main sequence to the later stages of its evolution are known as "Kippenhahn diagrams."[2] Normally these diagrams display information such as convective borders, sites of nuclear energy generation and sites of shell burning.
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