
August Kopff
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 65 years ago |
Date of birth | February 5,1882 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Heidelberg |
Germany | |
Date of died | April 25,1960 |
Died | Heidelberg |
Germany | |
Discovered | 596 Scheila |
632 Pyrrha | |
22P/Kopff | |
624 Hektor | |
617 Patroclus | |
612 Veronika | |
Books | The mathematical theory of relativity |
Notable student | Wilhelm Gliese |
Academic advisor | Max Wolf |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 705353 |
August Kopff Life story
August Kopff was a German astronomer and discoverer of several comets and asteroids. Kopff studied and worked in Heidelberg, getting his PhD there in 1906 and he then joined the Humboldt University of Berlin where he became the Director of the Institute for Astronomical Calculation.