biography
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Wolf, Max(imilian Franz Joseph Cornelius)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1932)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Heidelberg, SWC Germany. He studied at Heidelberg and Stockholm universities, becoming professor of astronomy at Heidelberg (1896) and director of the Königstuhl astrophysical observatory there. He invented the photographic method of discovering asteroids, and with Edward Barnard was the first to appreciate ‘dark’ nebulae in the sky. |
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