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Germany in 2018

Historical records for Germany in 2018, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

5Records
5Events
5Named people
4Places
2Categories

Historical records

July

26 July 2018S2 Gravitational RedshiftFrank Eisenhauer

Science / Astronomy

As a leading GRAVITY scientist, helps measure gravitational redshift in S2 during its close passage around Sagittarius A*, testing general relativity near a supermassive black hole.

October

3 October 2018Never Look AwayFlorian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Germany · Arts / Cinema

Directs Never Look Away.

20 October 2018BepiColombo LaunchJohannes Benkhoff

Kourou, French Guiana · Science / Astronomy

BepiColombo launches on an Ariane 5 to begin a multi-year journey toward Mercury.

Other Events

2018PlanckNazzareno Mandolesi

European Space Agency · Science / Astronomy

Mandolesi contributes to Planck low frequency instrument results in the final cosmological data release

2018Relativity, Theory ofReinhard Genzel

Galactic Centre · Science / Astronomy

Genzel observes gravitational redshift in the orbit of S2 near the Milky Ways central black hole

Names involved

Florian Henckel von DonnersmarckFrank EisenhauerJohannes BenkhoffNazzareno MandolesiReinhard Genzel

Places involved

European Space AgencyGalactic CentreGermanyKourou, French Guiana

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.