Olof Petrus (or Peter) Hiorter (or Hjorter) (1696–1750) was a Swedish astronomer. After studying in the Netherlands, he was appointed lecturer at the University...
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the study of auroral phenomena, which he conducted with his assistant Olof Hiorter, and he was the first to suggest a connection between the aurora borealis...
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matriculated as a student at the University of Uppsala, where he excelled. Olof Hiorter was one of his instructors. He graduated with the degree of filosofie...
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confirmed in the Swedish city of Uppsala by Anders Celsius and Olof Hiorter. In 1741, Hiorter was able to link large magnetic fluctuation to the observation...
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periodic comet P/2005 E1 (P/Tubbiolo). JPL · 8867 8868 Hjorter 1992 EE7 Olof Hiorter (1696–1750), Swedish professor of astronomy at Uppsala in 1732–1737 and...
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law professor Christiaan Hendrik Trotz [nl], and Swedish astronomer Olof Hiorter; he kept in contact with Musschenbroek through letters throughout his...
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29 January - Sophia Schröder, concert soprano (born 1712) 25 April - Olof Hiorter, astronomer (born 1696) 17 May - Georg Engelhard Schröder, painter (born...
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accompanying geomagnetic disturbances was noticed by Anders Celsius and Olof Peter Hiorter in 1747. In 1860, Elias Loomis (1811–1889) showed that the highest...
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