Ludwig Biermann
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Ludwig Franz Benedikt Biermann (March 13, 1907 in Hamm – January 12, 1986 in München) was a German astronomer, obtaining his Ph.D. from Göttingen University in 1932.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
He made important contributions to astrophysics and plasma physics, discovering the Biermann battery. He predicted the existence of the solar wind which in 1947 he dubbed "solar corpuscular radiation".
He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1961.<ref>Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars</ref> He won the Bruce Medal in 1967 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1974.
Asteroid 73640 Biermann is named in his honor.
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- 1907 births
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- People from Hamm
- 20th-century German astronomers
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- Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
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- Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- Max Planck Institute directors