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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
1793Apr, 15

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer and academic (d. 1864)
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.

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