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Heino Falcke (born 1966) is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize. His main field of study is black holes. In 2013 a team under his lead earned a 14 million euro research grant of the European Research Council for further studies into black holes. ==Career== Falcke was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1966.〔 He studied physics at the universities of Cologne and Bonn and graduated in 1992. He obtained a further doctorate summa cum laude in 1994 from the University of Bonn.〔 Falcke subsequently worked as a scientist for the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, the University of Maryland and University of Arizona.〔 Falcke won the Ludwig Biermann Award for young astronomers of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft in 2000. In 2003 he became adjunct professor of Radio Astronomy and Astroparticle physics at Radboud University Nijmegen. He also started working for ASTRON, the radio astronomy institute of the Netherlands. In 2007 he became a full professor at Nijmegen.〔 In 2006 Falcke won the Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.〔 Falcke received an Advanced Research Grant of the European Research Council of 3.5 million euro in 2008.〔 In 2011 he was one of three winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2.5 million euro grant. The awarding organisation, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, praised Falcke for providing new insights regarding black holes. They called him one of the leading forces behind the radio telescope LOFAR.〔 Falcke worked on the design of the telescope.〔 In 2013 Falcke, as lead scientist of a team, received a European Research Council Synergy grant of 14 million euro. The grant was intended for further studies on black holes, specifically Sagittarius A *. The goal was to construct a Black Hole Camera with the grant. This would allow testing of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity by creating an image of the event horizon.〔 Since 2014 Falcke is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heino Falcke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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