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Noun Named Entity
Categories: 1784 births, Honorary Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 19th-century German astronomers, People from Minden, Members of the French Academy of Sciences
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Bessel  Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel  Friedrich Bessel  F. W. Bessel  Frederic Bessel
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German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846) WordNet 3.0
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German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. Wikipedia
German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions Wikipedia Disambiguation
Mathematician and astronomer Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
astronomer
mathematician
homo
ACADEMIC DEGREE
Doctor of Sciences
AWARD RECEIVED
Pour le Mérite
Lalande Prize
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
CAUSE OF DEATH
retroperitoneal fibrosis
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Prussia
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Svensk uppslagsbok
Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
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DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Gauss
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Carl August von Steinheil
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
Heinrich Scherk
Eduard Luther
EDUCATED AT
University of Göttingen
EMPLOYER
University of Göttingen
Koenigsberg Observatory
University of Königsberg
FIELD OF WORK
astronomy
geodesy
mathematics
physics
GIVEN NAME
Friedrich
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
German
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Accademia nazionale delle scienze
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Russian Academy of Sciences
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OCCUPATION
astronomer
mathematician
physicist
professeur des universités
geodesist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Minden
PLACE OF DEATH
Königsberg
PROFESSORSHIP
professor
RELATIVE
Karl Gottfried Hagen
RESIDENCE
Kingdom of Prussia
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
WRITING LANGUAGE
German
WordNet 3.0
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Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Open English WordNet
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Friedrich Bessel, Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Wikipedia
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Friedrich Bessel
Wikidata
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Friedrich Bessel
Wikipedia Redirections
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F. W. Bessel, Frederic Bessel, Friedrich bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Tabulae Regiomontanae, Wilhelm Bessel
Wikidata Alias
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

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