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    Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (21 January 1908 – 4 July 1987) was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist. Bengt Strömgren was born in Gothenburg. His parents...
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    spectral classes O or B. The theory was derived by Bengt Strömgren in 1937 and later named Strömgren sphere after him. The Rosette Nebula is the most prominent...
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  • Svante Elis Strömgren (31 May 1870 – 5 April 1947) was a Swedish–Danish astronomer. Strömgren was born in 1870 in Helsingborg, in the Scania province...
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  • The Strömgren photometric system, abbreviated also as uvbyβ or simply uvby, and sometimes referred as Strömgren - Crawford photometric system, is a four-colour...
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  • Palomar–Leiden survey in 1960, it was named for Danish astronomer Bengt Strömgren. Bengt was discovered on 24 September 1960, by Dutch astronomer couple...
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    Observatory of Belgium in Uccle. It was named after Sigrid Strömgren, wife of astronomer Bengt Strömgren. Sigrid is a member of the Nysa family (405), the largest...
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  • Stromgren, Strömgren or Strømgren is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bengt Strömgren (1908–1947), Danish astronomer Elis Strömgren...
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  • 1945), Swedish chemist Bengt Strömgren (1908–1987), Danish astronomer and astrophysicist; namesake of asteroid 1846 Bengt Bengt-Åke Lundvall (born 1941)...
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    Observatory, Cambridge, United States. In 1940 Ellis Strömgren was succeeded by his son Bengt Strömgren, who made the pioneering discovery that hydrogen is...
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  • In mathematics and astrophysics, the Strömgren integral, introduced by Bengt Strömgren (1932, p.123) while computing the Rosseland mean opacity, is the...
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  • astronomer DMP · 1492 1493 Sigrid 1938 QB Sigrid Strömgren, wife of Danish-American astronomer Bengt Strömgren DMP · 1493 1494 Savo 1938 SJ Savonia, historical...
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  • Albrecht Unsöld 1957 – Ira S. Bowen 1958 – William Wilson Morgan 1959 – Bengt Strömgren 1960 – Viktor A. Ambartsumian 1961 – Rudolph Minkowski 1962 – Grote...
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    Chandrasekhar finished his theory of white dwarfs which was quickly praised by Bengt Strömgren and Paul Ledoux. The latter said in his introductory book of astronomy...
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    published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 September 1987 (M.P.C. 12210). Bengt Strömgren, Danish astronomer instrumental in founding it. Poul Jensen, Asteroid...
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  • Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson) 1832 Mrkos (Antonín Mrkos) 1846 Bengt (Bengt Strömgren) 1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek) 1851 Lacroute (Pierre Lacroute French...
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    (1960–1962) Carlyle Smith Beals (1962–1964) Leo Goldberg (1964–1966) Bengt Strömgren (1966–1967) Albert E. Whitford (1967–1970) Martin Schwarzschild (1970–1972)...
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  • 1962 Grote Reber 1963 William Alfred Fowler 1964 Ira S. Bowen 1965 Bengt Strömgren 1966 Richard Tousey 1967 Otto Neugebauer 1968 John G. Bolton 1969 Eugene...
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    Arthur Lyttleton 1960 Viktor Ambartsumian 1961 Herman Zanstra 1962 Bengt Strömgren 1963 Harry Hemley Plaskett 1964 Martin Ryle Maurice Ewing 1965 Gerald...
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    As evolutionary models of stars were developed during the 1930s, Bengt Strömgren introduced the term Hertzsprung–Russell diagram to denote a luminosity-spectral...
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  • Lyapunov, on numerical results by George Darwin, Forest Ray Moulton, and Bengt Strömgren, on power series by Giulio Bisconcini and Karl F. Sundman, and on the...
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    international environment, notable Danish scientists from this milieu includes Bengt Strömgren (1908–1987), Aage Bohr (1922–2009), Holger Bech Nielsen (born 1941)...
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    curve also showed that there were very few faint white stars. In 1933, Bengt Strömgren introduced the term Hertzsprung–Russell diagram to denote a luminosity-spectral...
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    in 1983), Gerard Kuiper (protagonist of the famous Kuiper Prize), Bengt Strömgren, Gerhard Herzberg (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1971), William Wilson...
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    Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, George Gamow, Donald Menzel, John von Neumann, Bengt Strömgren, Edward Teller, and Merle Tuve. Bethe initially declined the invitation...
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    Ambartsumian (1964–1967) Pol Swings (1967–1970) Otto Heckmann (1970–1973) Bengt Strömgren (1973–1976) Leo Goldberg (1976–1979) Adriaan Blaauw (1979–1982) Vainu...
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    1943–1975. Piet Hein (1905–1996), Danish mathematician, inventor and poet Bengt Strömgren (1908–1987), Danish astronomer and astrophysicist Hilde Levi (1909–2003)...
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  • geologist, anatomist Bjarne Stroustrup (1950–), C++ (lives in the US) Bengt Strömgren (1908–1987) Bent Erik Sørensen (1941–), physicist and researcher into...
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    William W. Morgan 1957–1960 – Gerard P. Kuiper (2nd time) 1950–1957 – Bengt Strömgren 1947–1950 – Gerard P. Kuiper 1932–1947 – Otto Struve 1903–1932 – Edwin...
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  • American NFL footballer (Pittsburgh Steelers). Bengt Strömgren, 79, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist (Strömgren sphere), heart failure. Bobby Ancell, 76...
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  • Spitzer 1974 Cornelis de Jager 1972 Jan H. Oort 1971 Antony Hewish 1969 Bengt Strömgren 1968 Maarten Schmidt 1963 Charles Fehrenbach 1959 Martin Schwarzschild...
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