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Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August

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Born Memel, Prussia (Klaipeda, Lithuania), 23 March 1799

Died Bonn, Germany, 17 February 1875

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Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August. Reproduced by permission of Helsinki University Museum (A photograph of the portrait by Carl Peter Mazer in 1837)

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  • Donner, A. (1909). Den astronomiska forskningen och den astronomiska institutionen vid det finska universitetet. II. Tiden från Argelander till Krueger. Akademisk inbjudningsskrift. Helsinki.

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  • Lehti R. and Markkanen T. (2010). History of Astronomy in Finland 1828–1918. Societas Scientiarum Fennica. Sastamala 2010.

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  1. University of Helsinki, Haltiatontuntie 4 A 4, Espoo, 02200, Finland

    Tapio Markkanen

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Markkanen, T. (2014). Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_69

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