Biography
Karl Otto Rudiger Jaschek, German-born Argentine / French astrophysicist (Brzeg, today Poland 02 March 1926 – Salamanca, Spain 12 April 1999)
His wife, Mercedes Isabel Corvalán de Jaschek, Argentine / French stellar spectroscopist (Buenos Aires 13 April 1926 – Salamanca, Spain 21 November 1995)
Authored about 250 publications and over 15 books
BOTH
Worked on the first classification schemes in the ultraviolet spectrum
With Y. Andrillat worked on determination of fundamental properties of Ae, Be and shell stars with near infrared data
Introduced the subgroup of Gallium stars in the general classification
Discovered Ap stars from Si group λ 4200 and Be stars (1962)
Identified the presence of rare earths in stars of Mn and SrCrEu groups
Discovered spectral subgroups and showed clearly its spectral features
Developed classification methodologies suited to each available spectral range
Obtained the first detections of high temperature stars with anomalous CNO contents
Authored two classical books Classification of Stars (1987) and The behavior of the chemical elements in stars (1995)
HONORS
Asteroid 2964 Jaschek (Carlos)
