He made pioneering measurements of the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and then was co-founder and an intellectual leader of the NASA COBE (microwave background) satellite.
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His doctoral students include Horst-Günter Zimmer, Wulf-Dieter Geyer, Bohuslav Divis, Gerhard Frey, Volker Weispfenning, Henning Stichtenoth, Rainer Weiss Auer, Florian Pop and Franz Lemmermeyer.