Bohumil Šternberk
Bohumil Šternberk (born January 21, 1897 in Chrudim , † March 24, 1983 in Prague ) was a Bohemian astronomer , educator and first director of the Ondřejov observatory .
Life
Sternberk studied with Paul Guthnick in Berlin- Babelsberg, whose most talented pupil he was. From 1930 he worked at the Hurbanovo observatory . When the Ondrejov observatory (30 km southeast of Prague), built in 1898 by the industrialist Jan Fric , was transferred from the University of Prague to the newly founded Czech Academy of Sciences in 1954 , they appointed him the first director of the observatory.
In 1999 the asteroid (9008) Bohšternberk was named after him.
Expansion of the observatory
Under the active director Sternberk, the observatory was expanded several times and became one of the most important astronomical research facilities in the Eastern Bloc. It also began in 1957 with high-precision satellite observations of the first Russian Sputniki and later many other Earth satellites. Since 1967 it has had the largest telescope in the Czech Republic with a 2-meter reflector telescope . At the beginning of the eighties a building of the cosmic laboratory was put into operation.
literature
- Bohumil Šternberk 1897-1983. In: Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of Czechoslovakia. Volume 34, No. 4, 1983, ISSN 0004-6248 , pp. 193-194 (with picture), digitized
- Zdeněk Horský: Bohumil Šternberk. In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 25, No. 3, 1984, pp. 379-380, digitized
Individual evidence
- ^ History: Section Astronomy in Hurbanovo in 1919-1938 years. Slovak Central Observatory Hurbanovo, suh.sk (en; accessed April 2, 2019)
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 34628
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SURNAME | Šternberk, Bohumil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech astronomer, educator and first director of the Ondrejov observatory |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chrudim |
DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1983 |
Place of death | Prague |