Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von Auvers ( German Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von Auwers ; September 12, 1838 , Göttingen - January 24, 1915 , Berlin ) is a German astronomer.
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| Date of Birth | September 12, 1838 |
| Place of Birth | Gottingen , Kingdom of Hanover |
| Date of death | January 24, 1915 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Berlin , German Empire |
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| Scientific field | astronomy |
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| Awards and prizes |   Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal , James Craig Watson Medal, Catherine Bruce Medal |
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Life and work
Educated at the University of Gottingen and Königsberg , since 1866 he worked at the Gothic Observatory. Scientific works relate to astrometry . In 1888, he published a new refinement of 3,000 Bradley stars. For many years, the Auvers-Bradley catalog remained the basis of all research on the motion of stars (until the appearance of L. Boss 's Preliminary General Catalog, containing 6188 stars). He studied the influence of the satellites of Sirius and Procyon on the motion of the main stars. He determined the parallax of the Sun from observations of minor planets and the passage of Venus through the disk of the Sun in 1874 , 1882 .
Father of the famous chemist Karl Friedrich von Auvers , grandfather of the physicist Otto Arthur Siegfried von Auvers.
Rewards
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1888)
- James Craig Watson Medal (1891)
- Catherine Bruce Medal (1899).
The Auvers Crater on the Moon is named after him.
Academy Memberships
- Berlin Academy of Sciences (1866)
- Petersburg Academy of Sciences , corresponding member since 1873, honorary member since 1904
- Royal Society of London , foreign member since 1879
- US National Academy of Sciences , foreign member since 1883
- Paris Academy of Sciences (1892)
Notes
- ↑ Mathematical Genealogy - 1997.
Literature
- Kolchinsky I.G., Korsun A.A., Rodriguez M.G. Astronomers: A Biographical Reference. - 2nd ed., Revised. and additional .. - Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1986. - 512 p.
- Newcomb S., Engelman R. Astronomy in a generally understood manner. - St. Petersburg, 1896.
Links
- Auvers, Arthur // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Arthur von Auwers (German)
- Profile of Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von Auvers on the RAS official website