Reimar Lüst (born March 25, 1923 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a
German astrophysicist. He was the director general of the
European Space Agency (ESA) from 1984 until 1990. Dr. Lüst received degrees in physics from Göttingen, Chicago and Princeton University and was a professor at New York, MIT and Caltech before he became the director general of the ESA.