Georg Raffelt

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Georg Raffelt is a senior staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich after studying physics in Munich and Berkeley. His research interests have always revolved around the role of weakly interacting particles in astrophysics and cosmology. In 1996 he published the textbook Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics.


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Particle Physics in the Sky

Much can be learned about hypothetical particles called axions by studying the evolution of massive stars. Read More »