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    origin. Otto was the descendant of famous astronomers of the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and great-grandson...
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  • Otto Struve A may refer to: Russell (lunar crater) Eddington (crater), on older maps This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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    Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 (Julian calendar: April 25) – April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his...
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    Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864)...
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    the Struve family, which also included his grandfather Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, father Otto Wilhelm von Struve, brother Ludwig Struve and nephew...
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    rims of Russell and Eddington. On older maps this formation was named Otto Struve. It now honors three members of the same family, all astronomers. By...
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    The Otto Struve Telescope was the first major telescope to be built at McDonald Observatory. Located in the Davis Mountains in West Texas, the Otto Struve...
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    was the fourth son of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and Emilie Dyrssen (1823–1868) and a younger brother of astronomer Hermann Struve. Ludwig followed his family...
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  • Jacob Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819–1905), son of Friedrich Gustav Wilhelm Ludwig Struve (Ludwig Struve, 1858–1920), son of Otto Karl Hermann Struve (Hermann...
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    as Otto Struve A, or just assumed to be part of the larger Struve. The crater Eddington to the southeast has also been designated as Otto Struve A on...
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    Wilfried Struve (1914–1992) and Rheinhard Struve (1919–1943). Gustav Ludiwig von Struve (1858–1920) and his wife, Elizaveta, had a son Otto Struve (1897–1963)...
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    from the estate and construction began at Mt. Locke. The then-unnamed Otto Struve Telescope was dedicated on May 5, 1939, and at that time was the second...
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  • 2227 Otto Struve, provisional designation 1955 RX, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.7 kilometers in diameter...
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    telescopes were the Hooker Telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory and the Otto Struve Telescope at the McDonald Observatory.[citation needed] List of astronomical...
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    collaboration with Otto Struve at the University of Chicago, who supplied astronomers. The McDonald Observatory is named after him, with Otto Struve becoming the...
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    Georg Otto Hermann Struve (Russian: Георг Германович Струве; 29 December 1886 – 10 June 1933) was a German astronomer from the Struve family and the son...
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    stellar spectroscopy and the physics of gaseous nebulas. Together with Otto Struve, he studied the rapid rotation of stars of young spectral types and measured...
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    William Herschel.: p73  It was again observed by Friedrich Struve in 1825 and by Otto Struve in 1851. In 1910, it was discovered that although component...
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    extraterrestrial life were reinforced by a lecture from astrophysicist Otto Struve in 1951. After receiving a B.A. in Engineering Physics, Drake served...
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  • source. He began his professional career at Yerkes Observatory under Otto Struve and later went to Caltech. With Louis G. Henyey he invented a new spectrograph...
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    Peter (or Pyotr or Petr) Berngardovich Struve (Russian: Пётр Бернга́рдович Стру́ве, IPA: [pʲɵtr bʲɪrnˈɡardəvʲɪtɕˈstruvʲɪ]; 7 February [O.S. 26 January] 1870...
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    Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. His thesis advisors were Otto Struve and William Wilson Morgan. Hynek joined the Department of Physics and...
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  • time; however, her findings will be vindicated by 1929 and astronomer Otto Struve will describe her work as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written...
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    instruments then available had been found. Friedrich Struve (catalog abbr. Σ) and his son Otto Struve (catalog abbr. σ) had catalogued a good number of binary...
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    astronomer Gerard Kuiper using the McDonald Observatory's 82-inch (2,080 mm) Otto Struve Telescope. Its motion around Uranus was confirmed on 1 March 1948. It...
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    Beta Cephei variable stars. He played a significant role in bringing Otto Struve to the United States, when the latter was living as an impoverished refugee...
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    65th double discovered by James Dunlop, and Σ2451, discovered by F. G. W. Struve. The Washington Double Star Catalog, a large database of double and multiple...
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    1932, Strömgren was invited to the University of Chicago in 1936 by Otto Struve. Going abroad for 18 months meant a lot to the young researcher, and...
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    telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, (United States). The 2.08 m Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory, (United States). The 2.0 m Liverpool...
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    leading authority on white dwarfs. Kuiper had recently been recruited by Otto Struve, the director of the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, which...
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