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Friedrich Bessel
1784 – 1846 · aged 62
German astronomer and mathematician
- Born
- 22 Jul 1784 · Minden
- Died
- 17 Mar 1846 · Königsberg
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- 22 Jul 1784BornBorn in Minden
- 1812AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1816AwardLalande Prize
- 1825AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1841AwardGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 1842AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- 17 Mar 1846DiedDied in Königsberg
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- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
Biography
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (German: [ˈbɛsl̩]; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) 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. Certain important mathematical functions were first studied systematically by Bessel and were named Bessel functions in his honour.
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