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    Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (22 March 1799 – 17 February 1875) was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses...
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    hold any of these positions Wilhelm II of Germany German Emperor In Natural Sciences: Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander Astronomer Constantin Carathéodory...
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    Bilk Observatory in Düsseldorf, Germany who deferred to Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander the naming his first asteroid discovery after Thetis from...
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    The most prominent of them was Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, his successors were Otto August Rosenberger and August Ludwig Busch. Bessel determined the...
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  • 1947) Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799–1875), Prussian astronomer Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (born 1942), politician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel...
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  • Deiters. Also well-known is his portrait of the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander from Bonn, painted around 1868. Der Heilige Servatius im...
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  • been used include: The Bonner Durchmusterung started by Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander uses B1855.0 The Henry Draper Catalog uses B1900.0 Constellation...
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  • 347 BC) WGPSN Argelander 16°33′S 5°48′E / 16.55°S 5.8°E / -16.55; 5.8 (Argelander) 33.72 1935 Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875) WGPSN...
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    (German Astronomical Society) and became its Vorstand (chairman). Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander assumed this role upon Zech's death. Schielicke, Reinhard (2013)...
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    his influences at Bonn were zoologist Georg August Goldfuss, astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander and botanist Ludolph Christian Treviranus....
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    invitations to replace F.G.W. Struve at Dorpat in 1829, Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander at Helsinki in 1837, and F.W. Bessel at Königsberg in 1847...
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    Friedhof, Bonn; notably those of Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander and Nikolaus Simrock. Zur Chronik der Akademie. Vom August 1884 bis Ende März 1886. In:...
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    after Benzenberg died, he joined the Bonn Observatory under Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander. Here, Schmidt measured the visual magnitudes and positions for...
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    Circumpolar Stars (1838). Its high proper motion was noted by Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander in 1842. It is 29.9 light-years (9.2 parsecs) from the Sun as...
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    Well-known astronomers who used the observatory included Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Arthur Auwers and Hermann Struve. In 1838, the...
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    number. In May 1857, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander discovered the high proper motion of the star. It was sometimes called "Argelander's second star". (The...
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    observatory of Bonn was founded by Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799 - 1875). His friendship to Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV facilitated the deployment...
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  • Gottfried Argelander, a timber-merchant at Memel and the father of Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander. Birch remained there until Argelander's death in...
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  • 1986 Fields Medal "for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture" Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875), Astronomy Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), History...
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    discovery observation at Turku. This minor planet was named after Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799–1875), author of the famous Bonner Durchmusterung and 19th-century...
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  • Date of award Name Description Residence 1842 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Astronomer Königsberg 1842 August Boeckh Antiquity researcher Berlin 1842 Franz...
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    ethnomusicologist Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, astronomer Ernst Moritz Arndt, author and poet Johann Baptista Baltzer, Catholic theologian August Beer, scientist...
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    the telescope ordered from Germany arrived only in 1824. Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander was appointed as the head of the new observatory. Most of...
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    Celestial cartography (category Articles needing additional references from August 2010)
    000 stars by accuracy of 10". 1903, Bonner Durchmusterung – by Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander and collaborators, circa 460,000 stars. 15th century BC – The...
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    designations of 16 and 24 Canis Majoris in the early 18th century. Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander labelled the stars as ο1 and ο2 in his atlas Uranometria Nova...
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    he briefly (two months) went to Bonn and started working with Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander in astronomy. He helped in a study of variable stars and with...
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  • painter (died 1872) May 26 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (died 1853) March 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, German astronomer (d. 1875)...
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    became an assistant to the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander at the Bonn Observatory. Under Argelander's supervision he produced data for the comprehensive...
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    of the society. 1863–1864: Julius Zech 1864–1867: Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander 1867–1878: Otto Wilhelm von Struve 1878–1881: Adalbert Krueger 1881–1889:...
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    testimonial medals, awarded to John Couch Adams, George Biddell Airy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, George Bishop, George Everest, Peter Andreas Hansen, Karl Ludwig...
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