Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peters

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peters (born April 16, 1844 in Pulkowo ; † December 2, 1894 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German astronomer .

Peters' father was the astronomer Christian August Friedrich Peters , who was working at the Russian observatory Pulkowa at the time . In 1849 he moved with his family to Königsberg i. Pr., 1849 to Altona . CFW Peters studied astronomy and mathematics at the universities of Berlin , Kiel and Munich and did his doctorate in Göttingen with a determination of the orbit of the minor planet No. 87 Sylvia . In 1867 he became an adjunct at the Hamburg observatory , and in 1868 assistant at the Altona observatory . There he was appointed observer in 1872 and moved to Kiel the following year as a result of the relocation of the Altona observatory . In 1876 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in Kiel, and in 1882 he became an associate professor there. In 1883 he took over the post of head of the newly built chronometric observatory of the Imperial Navy. At Easter 1888 he was appointed full professor and director of the observatory in Königsberg i. Pr. Where he died in 1894.

His work mainly concerns the length of the seconds pendulum in different places and the behavior of marine chronometers as a function of temperature and humidity as well as investigations into the Toise unit .

literature

  • Carl Friedr. Wilh. Peters: On the history and criticism of the Toisen Maass rods. A contribution to the definitive classification of the measurements based on the old French system in the metric system (= metronomic contributions. No. 5, ZDB -ID 504748-1 ). Dümmler, Berlin 1885.
  • as editor: A. Sawitsch : Abriss der Praktischen Astronomie, especially in its application to geographic location determination. After the 2nd original Russian edition, reissued with the cooperation of the author. Mauke, Leipzig 1879

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personal data
SURNAME Peters, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peters, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Pulkovo
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1894
Place of death Koenigsberg