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Noun Named Entity
SYL
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
EN
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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IS A
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astronomer
EN
mathematician
Homo sapiens
ACADEMIC DEGREE
EN
Doctor of Sciences
AWARD RECEIVED
Pour le Merite
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Lalande Prize
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Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Foreign Member of the Royal Society
CAUSE OF DEATH
EN
retroperitoneal fibrosis
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
EN
Prussia
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Svensk uppslagsbok
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Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
Allgemeine deutsche biographie
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The Nuttall Encyclopædia
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DOCTORAL ADVISOR
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Gauss
DOCTORAL STUDENT
EN
Carl August von Steinheil
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Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
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Heinrich Scherk
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Eduard Luther
EDUCATED AT
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University of Göttingen
EMPLOYER
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University of Göttingen
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Koenigsberg Observatory
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University of Königsberg
FIELD OF WORK
EN
astronomy
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geodesy
EN
mathematics
EN
physics
GIVEN NAME
Friedrich
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
EN
German
MANNER OF DEATH
EN
natural causes
MEMBER OF
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Royal Society
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Accademia nazionale delle scienze
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Russian Academy of Sciences
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OCCUPATION
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astronomer
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mathematician
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physicist
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professeur des universités
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geodesist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Minden
PLACE OF DEATH
EN
Königsberg
PROFESSORSHIP
EN
professor
RELATIVE
Karl Gottfried Hagen
RESIDENCE
EN
Kingdom of Prussia
SEX OR GENDER
EN
male
STUDENT
EN
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
WRITING LANGUAGE
EN
German
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

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