Christoph K. Goertz

Age: 47

Summary: German-American theoretical space physicist and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Iowa who had published more than 150 scientific articles in professional publications and was senior editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research, the world's leading journal for space physics, who was elected to be a member of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany earlier this year, who had been a visiting senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who also served as a member of the European Space Foundation, the Committee on the Future of Geophysics in Europe, and the NASA Space and Earth Science Advisory Committee on the scientific use of the space station, whose research interests ranged from the study of the Earth's aurora borealis, or northern lights to phenomena associated with the interactions between the planet Jupiter and its moons,.

Cause of Death: Homicide by gunshot

Born: March 22, 1944

Died: November 1, 1991

Location: Iowa City, Iowa