Karl worm

Karl Wurm (born July 21, 1899 in Siegen , † February 16, 1975 in Bonn ) was a German astronomer.

Wurm studied mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Bonn with a doctorate in 1926. Then he went to the Astrophysical Observatory in Potsdam, where he examined band spectra of molecules from star atmospheres and comets. This led to a related article in the Handbuch der Astrophysik (1930). He did research on comets and, in particular, after a study visit with Otto von Struve in 1938 at the Yerkes Observatory, on the spectra of gas nebulae. In 1941 he became the main observer at the Hamburg observatory in Hamburg-Bergedorf. In 1950 he was visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Babelsberg observatory for a few months . Because of the poor observation conditions in Hamburg, he observed regularly in Asiago (Veneto) from 1954 .

Fonts

The nature of comets. In: Communications from the Hamburg observatory. Volume 8, No. 51, 1943.
The Planetary Nebula. Akademie Verlag, 1951.
Monochromatic Atlas of the Orion Nebula. 1961.
with J. Rahe and B. Dunn: Atlas of cometary forms. Washington DC 1970.

He wrote the chapters The Spectra of Planetary Nebulae and The Theory of Planetary Nebulae in the Handbuch der Physik (Volume 50, 1958) and The Comets in Volume 52 (1959).

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SURNAME	Wurm, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wins
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1975
Place of death	Bonn