Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for their empirical analysis of asset prices.
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Peter Andreas Hansen
Peter Andreas Hansen was a Danish-born German astronomer.
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science · German astronomer (1795–1874) · mathematician · astronomer · geodesist · scientist · adviser · watchmaker · surveyor · also Peter Andreas Hansen, Hansen
Born 8 December 1795 · Died 28 March 1874 · Q61749
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1874· 1 entry
Died 1874-03-28.
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1865· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1860· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1860).
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1857· 2 entries
Astronomers generally believed that the lunar theory was at last complete; but within about a decade, it was noticed, and shown by Simon Newcomb, that the optimism had been unfounded: deviations between computed and obs
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At the expense of the British government, their merit being further recognized by a grant of £1000, and by their adoption in the Nautical Almanac as from the issue for the year 1862, and other Ephemerides
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1854· 2 entries
The first intimation that the accepted distance of the sun was too great by some millions of miles (Month
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One on the Moon's figure, advocating the mistaken hypothesis of its deformation by a huge elevation directed towards the Earth (ib
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1850· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1850).
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And his Solar Tables, compiled with the assistance of Christian Olufsen, appeared in 1854
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1847· 1 entry
An able paper on a long-period lunar inequality (Memoirs Roy
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1842· 1 entry
And 1860) the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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1838· 1 entry
Published a revision of the lunar theory, entitled Fundamenta nova investigationis, &c
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1835· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1835).
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1830· 1 entry
And a memoir on cometary disturbances was crowned by the Paris Academy in 1850
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1829· 1 entry
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander at Helsinki in 1837, and F
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1820· 1 entry
To Copenhagen, where he won the patronage of H
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1795· 1 entry
Born 1795-12-08.
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