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Born December 13, 1805 • Braemar • Scotland
Died August 6, 1879 (aged 73) • Munich • Germany
Subjects Of Study geomagnetic field
Edward Sabine
Edward Sabine
British astronomer
Christopher Hansteen
Norwegian astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
Regiomontanus
German mathematician
Maria Kirch
German astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel
British-German astronomer
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, detail of a lithograph by H. Mitreuter after a portrait by C.A. Jensen, 1844
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Russian astronomer
August Ferdinand Möbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer
Johann Daniel Titius
Prussian astronomer
Reinhard Genzel
German astronomer
Olbers, detail from an engraving
Wilhelm Olbers
German astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Hermann Karl Vogel
German astronomer
Max Wolf
Max Wolf
German astronomer

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