Karl Heinz Beckurts
- Life status
- Confirmed deceased
- Profession
- Physicist (neutron physics); research manager
- Also recorded as
- Karl-Heinz Beckurts · K. H. Beckurts · Karlheinz Beckurts
- Born
- Not recorded
- Age
- Not stated in the sources reached
- Died
- 9 July 1986, Near Munich, Bavaria · known to the day
- Fields
- Physics
- Organisations
- Forschungszentrum Jülich, chairman of the board (Vorstandsvorsitzender), 1970–1980
Siemens AG, member of the board - Works
- None catalogued yet
In plain words
Physicist (neutron physics); research manager. His documented field is neutron and reactor physics. No read source links him to UAP or anomaly research.
Biography
Karl Heinz Beckurts, physicist, chairman of the Jülich research centre (1970–1980) and later member of the Siemens board, is the person whose killing on 9 July 1986 near Munich is recorded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) and reported by dpa; the Physics Today obituary (July 1987) covers both his Jülich and his Siemens roles.
Physicist (neutron physics) and research manager: co-author with Karl Wirtz of the textbook Elementare Neutronenphysik (1958); chairman of the board of the Jülich research centre from 1970 to 1980; joined the Siemens board in 1980 and took responsibility for its research and development programme (Physics Today obituary, 1987). Completeness of the publication list is not claimed.
Member of the Siemens board at the time of his death, according to bpb; he joined the board in 1980 (Physics Today obituary, 1987).
His documented field is neutron and reactor physics. No read source links him to UAP or anomaly research.
Killed on 9 July 1986.
Killed near Munich, Bavaria.
Murdered near Munich, according to the bpb chronicle; killed with a bomb, according to dpa (2024).
dpa reported in 2024 that who was specifically behind the attack remains unresolved; no conviction for the attack was found in the reviewed sources. Attributed
Chairman of the board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) of the Jülich research centre from 1 August 1970 to 31 May 1980, according to Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Research field: physics, documented for Karl Heinz Beckurts (neutron physics).
Connection to UAP research
His documented field is neutron and reactor physics. No read source links him to UAP or anomaly research.
Works
No works catalogued in the approved record yet. Works mentioned in sources appear as attributed statements in the biography.
Timeline
Events and cases
No case file is published for this person. Recorded life events are in the timeline above; a case is opened only with its own evidence and review.
Sources
- 9. Juli 1986 (Deutschland-Chronik bis 2000) (opens in a new tab)Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) · Official record · read
- Ungeklärte Morde: Die letzten Rätsel der RAF (dpa) (opens in a new tab)inFranken.de (dpa), 2024 · News report · read
- Obituary of Karl Heinz Beckurts (Physics Today 40(7), July 1987) (opens in a new tab)Physics Today (American Institute of Physics), 1987 · Institution · partly readAuthor: Wolfgang Gläser
- Die Vorstandsmitglieder des Forschungszentrums Jülich – von der Gründung bis heute (opens in a new tab)Forschungszentrum Jülich, 2025 · Institution · readAuthor: Véronique Kentzinger
- Crossref record: Elementare Neutronenphysik (K. Wirtz, K. H. Beckurts, 1958) (opens in a new tab)Springer (Crossref metadata) · Peer-reviewed publication · partly read