František Link

František Link (born August 15, 1906 in Brno , † September 28, 1984 in Paris ) was a Czech astronomer and educator .

Life

Link studied mathematics , geodesy and astronomy at Masaryk University in Brno (MSc) from 1924 to 1929 . He received his doctorate and did a post-doctorate in France from 1931 to 1933 at the Lyon and Pic du Midi observatories .

From 1933 Link was an external employee at the state observatory of Czechoslovakia in Prague and Ondřejov . In parallel, he worked as a physics teacher at various middle schools and published popular science works. In 1947 he founded the Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of Czechoslovakia . He was the first president of the Astronomical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( Astronomický ústav AV ČR ) and researched especially the atmosphere , lunar eclipses , climatological cyclicality and areas of general relativity .

Link contributed significantly to the explanation of the gravitational lensing effect ; In 2006 the Czech Astronomical Association organized a conference in his honor at the Charles University in Prague , which was sponsored by the scientists Martin Šolc , Luboš Perek , Václav Bumba and David Heyrovský .

The asteroid (3550) Link was named after him.

Published in German by Link among others:

Measurements of atmospheric absorption on a terrestrial basis. Prague, 1940
Dioptric tables of the earth's atmosphere. Prague, 1940
Tables for calculating the galactic motion components of the stars. Prague, 1941
The lunar eclipses. Leipzig: Geest & Portig, 1956
The moon. Berlin: Springer, 1969

personal data
SURNAME	Link, František
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech astronomer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	September 28, 1984
Place of death	Paris