Kurt Laves
Kurt Laves (* 1866 ; † March 25, 1944 ) was a German-American astronomer .
Laves studied astronomy in Berlin (graduating in 1891) and came to the University of Chicago in 1893 , where he became an instructor in 1897 , an assistant professor in 1901 and an associate professor of mathematical astronomy from 1908 until his retirement in 1932 . He mainly worked in the field of celestial mechanics , specifically he investigated the movement of the earth in the earth-moon system.
His son Walter Hermann Carl Laves (1902-1983) was a senior US official (including Deputy Director General of UNESCO from 1947 to 1950) and professor of political science at Indiana University. Another son, Gerhardt Kurt Laves (1906-1993), was an anthropologist who studied the languages of Australian Aborigines and the Navajos .
One of his students was Forest Ray Moulton (from 1912 professor in Chicago).
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- Donald Osterbrock Yerkes Observatory , p. 163
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| SURNAME | Laves, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1866 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1944 |