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About Christian Gapp

Christian Gapp studied astronomy and elementary particle physics at Bochum and Bonn University before working on image processing as a member of the WA69-collaboration of CERN, Geneva. Currently an IT and communications consultant, he was appointed to the Deutsche Gesellschaft fÌ_r Photographie (German Society of Photography) and contributes regularly to Telepolis and KUNSTFORUM international.

Articles by Christian Gapp

Sunday 12th October

The Galileo project: science, journalism, and Jupiter

In September 2003, the spacecraft Galileo disintegrated in Jupiter’s dense atmosphere, after fourteen years of measuring the planet’s satellites. A success? Yes, but also a cautionary tale of how the media misrepresents scientific work and achievement.
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