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Friedrich Bessel

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 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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science · German astronomer and mathematician (1784–1846) · astronomer · mathematician · university teacher · topographer · physicist · geodesist · also Friedrich Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Bessel

Born 22 July 1784 · Died 17 March 1846 · Q75845

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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1842).
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Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1841).
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1846· 1 entry

Mar 17, 1846Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1846-03-17.

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1844· 1 entry

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Was the first correct claim of a previously unobserved companion by positional measurement, and eventually led to the discovery of Sirius B by Alvan Graham Clark in 1862, the first discovery of a white dwarf

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1842· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1842Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1842).

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Bessel took part in the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Manchester, accompanied by the geophysicist Georg Adolf Erman and the mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, where he g

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1841· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1841Documented record84% confidence

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Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1841).

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1840· 2 entries

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Member of the National Academy of Science in Verona (1842),

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Aged 26; his younger son died shortly after birth

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1837· 1 entry

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Got in quarrel about Gauss's habit of very slow publication

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1832· 1 entry

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Member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, predecessor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1827

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1830· 1 entry

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Got the royal order for the survey of East Prussia with the purpose to connect the yet existing Prussian and Russian triangulation networks

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1825· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1825Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1825).

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As an international project with Johann Franz Encke as executive editor

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1824· 1 entry

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Bessel developed a new method for calculating the circumstances of eclipses using the so-called Besselian elements

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1819· 1 entry

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Bessel determined the position of over 50,000 stars with a meridian circle from Reichenbach, assisted by some of his qualified students

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1816· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1816Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Lalande Prize (1816).

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1812· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1812Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1812).

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Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1816

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1806· 1 entry

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And became assistant at Johann Hieronymus Schröter's private observatory in Lilienthal near Bremen as successor of Karl Ludwig Harding

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1804· 1 entry

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Using old observation data taken from Thomas Harriot and Nathaniel Torporley in 1607

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1784· 1 entry

Jul 22, 1784Documented record86% confidence

Friedrich Bessel

Born 1784-07-22.

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