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.
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1937
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2001 (aged 63) Silver Spring, Maryland
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