Reuven Ramaty

Dr. Reuven Ramaty (1937-2001) was a Hungarian astrophysicist who worked for 30 years in the NASA Goddard space flight centre as well as being a leader in the fields of solar physics, gamma-ray line spectrometry, nuclear astrophysics and low-energy cosmic rays. Reuven was a founding member of NASA's High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager which has now been renamed the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager in his honour. This was the first space mission to be named after a NASA scientist and remains fully operational today. Online Archive of California holds over 400 entries for documents, papers and photographs published by and of Reuven and his work. Reuven achieved a total of 4 achievements in the field of astrophysics and solar physics as well as having a tribute dedicated to his work at the University of Maryland in 2000.

Reuven Ramaty
Died8th of April 2001 (age 64)
Silver Spring, Maryland
EducationBachelor of Science in Physic from Tel Aviv University PhD on Planetary and Space Physics from The University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation1967-1969 Post-doctoral research associate, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics

1969-2001 Astrophysicist, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (government employed) 1980-1993 Head of Theory Office, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (government employed) 1974-1977 Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters 1977-1978 Chairman of The American Physical Society, Astrophysics division 1984-1985 Chairman of The American Physical Society, High Energy Astronomy Division

1986-1989 Divisional councillor for astrophysics, American Physical Society (APS)
Known forWork in high energy astrophysics, NASA’s RHESSI project was named in his honour.
AwardsAlexander von Humboldt Foundation the Senior U.S. Scientist Award 1975

NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award 1980

Lindsay Award, Goddard Space Flight Centre 1981 and the 2001 Yodh lifetime Prize 2001

References
  1. Ramaty, Reuven; Lingenfelter, Richard E. (1999). Astrophysics and Space Science. 265 (1/4): 71–76. doi:10.1023/a:1002185328791. ISSN 0004-640X http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1002185328791. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Cline, Thomas L.; Gehrels, Neil; Lingenfelter, Richard E. (November 2001). "Reuven Ramaty". Physics Today. 54 (11): 80–80. doi:10.1063/1.1428448. ISSN 0031-9228.
  3. "Scientist Reuven Ramaty Dies". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  4. Diehl, Roland (2005). "Gamma-Ray Line Astronomy". AIP Conference Proceedings. AIP. doi:10.1063/1.1878407.
  5. Masson, S.; Antiochos, S. K.; DeVore, C. R. (2019-10-21). "Escape of Flare-accelerated Particles in Solar Eruptive Events". The Astrophysical Journal. 884 (2): 143. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab4515. ISSN 1538-4357.
  6. Rebel, H. (2012). "The high energy cosmic ray spectrum". AIP. doi:10.1063/1.4768504. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "12. "July 2001 to June 2002"" (PDF). NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Laboratory for Astronomy & Solar Physics. 2002. horizontal tab character in |title= at position 4 (help)
  8. "Yodh Prize: Past recipients".
  9. Reuven Ramaty Papers, MSS 0543. Mandeville Special Collections Library UCSD.
  10. Ramaty, Reuven (1971). "Low energy metagalactic cosmic rays" (PDF). National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center.
  11. "Overview of Solar Flares". hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  12. "1973ICRC....2.1590R Page 1590". adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
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