biography
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Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm
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pronunciation:
[shtroovuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1793–1864)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, the first of four generations of eminent astronomers, born in Altona, N Germany. He became professor of astronomy at Dorpat (1813), director of the Dorpat observatory (1817), then director of Pulkova near St Petersburg (1839), which was constructed to his specifications through the patronage of Tsar Nicholas I. He founded the study of double stars, published a catalogue (1837) of over 3000 binary stars, and carried out one of the first determinations of stellar distance. |
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