Johannes Wilsing
Johannes Wilsing (born September 8, 1856 in Berlin , † December 23, 1943 in Potsdam ) was a German astronomer .
Wilsing studied in Berlin and Göttingen . In 1880 he received his doctorate in Berlin with the work on the influence of air pressure and heat on pendulum movement .
From 1898 to 1921 he was an observer at the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam .
In 1896, together with Julius Scheiner , he tried to detect radio emissions from the sun. Wilson's main area of research was spectrophotometry .
Honors
In 1919 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Wilsing in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by J. Wilsing in the Astrophysics Data System
- portrait
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Johannes Wilsing (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 30, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilsing, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1943 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |