Åke Wallenquist
Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist (born January 16, 1904 in Västervik , † April 8, 1994 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish astronomer .
Between 1928 and 1935 he worked at the Dutch Bosscha Observatory in Indonesia . In 1948 he got a job as an assistant professor at Kvistaberg Observatory of the University of Uppsala . He started studying binary stars , but soon open clusters and their properties became his main research area. Wallenquist was an avid member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm and the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala . From the 1950s he was the leading writer on popular science astronomy in Sweden. His books sparked interest in astronomy in generations of young people.
Awards
In 1979 he received the Karin Gierow Prize from the Svenska Academies . In the same year the asteroid (2114) Wallenquist was named after him.
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| SURNAME | Wallenquist, Åke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wallenquist, Åke Anders Edvard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vastervik |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1994 |
| Place of death | Uppsala |