Born Berlin, (Germany), 23 October 1822
Died Giessen, (Hessen), Germany, 7 July 1895
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Anon. (1896). “Professor Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 56: 210–213.
Maunder, E. W. (1890). “Professor Spoerer's Researches on Sun‐spots.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 50: 251–252. (Contains a short summary, in English, of Spörer's two 1889 articles.)
Spörer, G. (1889). “Sur les différences que présentent l'hémisphère nord et l'hémisphère sud du Soleil.” Bulletin astronomique 6: 60–63.
——— (1889).“Ueber die Periodicität der Sonnenflecken seit dem Jahre 1618.” Nova Acta der Kaiserlischer Leopold‐Carolinia Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher 53: 280–324.
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Charbonneau, P. (2007). Spörer, Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1302
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