Friedrich Bessel
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 178 years ago |
Date of birth | July 22,1784 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Minden |
Germany | |
Date of died | March 17,1846 |
Died | Konigsberg |
Full name | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel |
Spouse | Johanna Hagen |
Nationality | German |
Prussian | |
Job | Astronomer |
Mathematician | |
Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Lalande Prize | |
Education | University of Göttingen |
Children | Johanne Marie Erman |
Wilhelm Bessel | |
Marie Bessel | |
Elisabeth Bessel | |
Johanna Bessel | |
Parents | Carl Friedrich Bessel |
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ID | 509762 |
Friedrich Bessel Life story
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the sun to another star by the method of parallax.