• Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski /mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; May 28, 1895 – January 4, 1976) was a German-American...
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    Hermann Minkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski. Born in Aleksotas, of Jewish origin, but later converted to Christianity. Minkowski was...
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  • Minkowski (1858–1931), German physician Peter Minkowski (born 1941), Swiss physicist Pinhas Minkowsky (1859–1924), Russian hazzan Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976)...
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    Hermann Minkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/ ming-KAWF-skee, -⁠KOF-; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor...
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    M2-9 (redirect from Minkowski 2-9)
    just Butterfly Nebula) is a planetary nebula that was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. It is located about 2,100 light-years away from Earth in...
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    spectral classification of these distant supernovae was performed by Rudolph Minkowski in 1941. He categorized them into two types, based on whether or not...
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    first extragalactic radio sources. Five years later, Walter Baade and Rudolph Minkowski suggested that the peculiar structure is the result of a merge event...
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    discovered on 14 September 1951, by astronomers Albert George Wilson and Rudolph Minkowski at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid...
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    Sisyphus 1972 Paul Wild List 1620 Geographos 1951 Albert George Wilson, Rudolph Minkowski List (29075) 1950 DA 1950 Carl A. Wirtanen List 1566 Icarus 1949 Walter...
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  • Edwin Hubble, Milton L. Humason, Walter Baade, Ira Sprague Bowen and Rudolph Minkowski. The first photographic plate was exposed on November 11, 1949. 99%...
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    longer used and the modern name was in use. American astronomers Rudolph Minkowski and Fritz Zwicky developed the modern supernova classification scheme...
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  • Another radio source, Cygnus A, was identified by Walter Baade and Rudolph Minkowski as a tidally distorted galaxy with an unusual emission-line spectrum...
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    are confined to a giant supercluster disk. 1954 — Walter Baade and Rudolph Minkowski identify the extragalactic optical counterpart of the radio source...
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  • (Italy, 1848–1919) Edward Arthur Milne (United Kingdom, 1896–1950) Rudolph Minkowski (Germany, 1895–1976) Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert (Belgium, Netherlands...
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    suggested supernovae might create them. Beginning in 1952, he and Rudolph Minkowski identified the optical counterparts of various radio sources, including...
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  • subcategory in the Minkowski–Zwicky supernova classification scheme, which was devised by German-American astronomer Rudolph Minkowski and Swiss astronomer...
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    index γ {\displaystyle \gamma } approximately equal to 4. In 1962, Rudolph Minkowski had discovered and wrote that a "correlation between velocity dispersion...
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    notable for its ice blue colorisation. It was first discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1946. Hen 2-437 formed when a low mass star similar to our sun...
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    Star Of The Season Archived January 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Minkowski, R. (1960). "A New Distant Cluster of Galaxies". Astrophysical Journal...
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    Rudolph or Rudolf (French: Rodolphe or Raoul, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish: Rodolfo) or Rodolphe is a male first name, and, less commonly, a surname...
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    Minkowski 2-42, abbreviated M2-42, is a planetary nebula that was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. It is located about 30,800 light-years away...
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    George Wilson and the rest by Abell, Robert George Harrington, and Rudolph Minkowski. All were discovered before August 1955 as part of the National Geographic...
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    additionally noted that the object was identified in an unpublished paper by Rudolph Minkowski. The object was likely misidentified as a planetary nebula due to...
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  • named after Jay McNeil. Minkowski 2-9 or Minkowski's Butterfly is a planetary nebula in Ophiuchus, named after Rudolph Minkowski. Pease 1 is a planetary...
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    making it a fully fledged planetary nebula. M1-92 was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1946. It was imaged by the Very Large Array (VLA) in 1983 and by...
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  • Morgan 1959 – Bengt Strömgren 1960 – Viktor A. Ambartsumian 1961 – Rudolph Minkowski 1962 – Grote Reber 1963 – Seth Barnes Nicholson 1964 – Otto Heckmann...
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  • WGPSN Minkowski 56°08′S 145°48′W / 56.13°S 145.8°W / -56.13; -145.8 (Minkowski) 107.51 1970 Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) and Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976)...
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    Minkowski is a crater on the far side of the Moon, in the lower latitudes of the southern hemisphere. The lunar crater lies about one crater diameter...
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  • the T Tauri classification JPL · 11769 11770 Rudominkowski 3163 T-2 Rudolph Minkowski, 20th-century German-American astronomer JPL · 11770 11771 Maestlin...
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  • Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick Chris Minkowski, Professor in Sanskrit at the University of Oxford 26 February 2009 The...
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