What is Reimar Lüst?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Reimar Lüst | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|3|25|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Wuppertal]], [[Germany]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|3|31|1923|3|25|df=y}}<ref>[https://www.mpg.de/14637221/souveraener-steuermann-der-wissenschaft?c=2191 Obituary of the Max Planck Society, German]</ref> | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = German | fields = [[Physics]] | workplaces = | alma_mater = Frankfurt/Main, University of Göttingen, University of Chicago, Princeton | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Director General of the ESA | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | footnotes = | spouse = }} '''Reimar Lüst''' (25 March 1923 – 31 March 2020) was a German [[astrophysicist]]. He was the president of the German [[Max Planck Society]] from 1972 to 1984 and the director general of the [[European Space Agency]] (ESA) from 1984 until 1990.<ref name=ref1>{{Cite web | title = ESA - About ESA - Reimar Lüst | publisher = ESA | date = December 11, 2007 | url = http://www.esa.int/esaMI/About_ESA/SEMKSH63R8F_0.html | access-date = April 7, 2011 | archive-date = January 25, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200125201702/http://www.esa.int/esaMI/About_ESA/SEMKSH63R8F_0.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> Lüst was a professor at New York, MIT and Caltech before he became the director general of the ESA.<ref name=ref2>{{Cite web | last = Herzberg | first = Philipp | title = Who is Reimar Lüst | publisher = The Pulse of the World | url = http://pulseoftheworld.com/read/who-is-reimar-luest/#comment | access-date = April 7, 2011 }}{{dead li