Julius Scheiner

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Julius Scheiner

Julius Scheiner (born November 25, 1858 in Cologne , † December 20, 1913 in Potsdam ) was a German astrophysicist .

Life

Grave of dr. Julius Scheiner at the Old Cemetery in Potsdam, April 2020

After graduating from high school in 1878, he studied mathematics and natural sciences in Bonn, and in 1882 he did his doctorate on investigations into the change in light in Algol after the Mannheim observations made by Eduard Schönfeld in the years 1869 to 1875 . He had been working as an assistant at the Bonn observatory since 1881 , and from 1887 at the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory , where he was appointed permanent staff member in 1894 and the main observator in 1898. In 1893 he received the title of professor from the University of Berlin , and in 1894 an extraordinary professorship .

Scheiners importance was the practical field, he developed named after him method of the ticket Nerns or Einscheinerns , wherein for the purpose of precise observation of the sky, the right ascension axis (polar axis) of the mount astronomical instruments exactly parallel to the axis of rotation is aligned with the earth. Scheiner also achieved some fame through popular science lectures and publications such as The Spectral Analysis of the Stars (Leipzig 1890), The Construction of the Universe (Leipzig 1901, 4th edition 1920) or Popular Astrophysics (Leipzig and Berlin 1908, 2nd edition 1912) or through numerous Articles in magazines and newspapers.

He died in Potsdam in 1913 and is buried there in the old cemetery .

See also

Popular Astrophysics (Hungarian Edition, Budapest, 1916)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Johannes Wilsing in the quarterly publication of the Astronomical Society 49 (1914), pp. 22–36

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Scheiner, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1913
Place of death Berlin