Friedrich Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
C. A. Jensen, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1839 (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)
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a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined the distance from the sun to another star by the method of parallax
Born
22 July 1784 Minden, Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Germany )
Died
17 March 1846 (aged 61) Königsberg, Prussia (present-day Kaliningrad, Russia )
Nationality
Prussian ( German )
Known for
Bessel functions Bessel ellipsoid Besselian elements Bessel's correction Bessel's inequality Repsold–Bessel pendulum Added mass Stellar parallax ( full list here )
Fields
Astronomy, mathematics, geodesy
Awards
PhD (Hon) : University of Göttingen (1811) Lalande Prize (1811), (1816) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1829 and 1841)
Institutions
University of Königsberg
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Germany
Doctoral students
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander Heinrich Scherk
era
1800+