Hugo von Zeipel
Edvard Hugo von Zeipel (born February 8, 1873 in Österhaninge near Stockholm , † June 8, 1959 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish astronomer .
He worked at the Stockholm Observatory from 1897 to 1900 , and at the Pulkowo Observatory from 1901 to 1902 . From 1904 to 1906 he was a member of the staff of the Paris observatory and from 1911 he worked at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory . His areas of expertise were celestial mechanics , astrophotography and theoretical astrophysics .
He is said to have treated the Kozai effect , known since the 1960s, as early as 1910 .
In 1898, 1901 and 1902 he took part in scientific expeditions to Spitzbergen .
Edvard Hugo von Zeipel is the namesake of the Zeipel crater on Earth's moon and the Zeipel asteroid (8870) discovered on March 6, 1992 .
Web links
- Hugo von Zeipel (in English)
- Literature at Libris.se
- Publications by H. von Zeipel in the Astrophysics Data System
- portrait
Individual evidence
- ↑ Takashi Ito, Katsuhito Ohtsuka: The Lidov – Kozai Oscillation and Hugo von Zeipel . arxiv : 1911.03984 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeipel, Hugo von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zeipel, Edvard Hugo von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Österhaninge near Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1959 |
| Place of death | Uppsala |