Magnus Nyren
Magnus Nyrén (born February 21, 1837 in Brunskog , Värmland province , † January 16, 1921 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish astronomer .
Life
Nyrén began his studies in Uppsala in 1859 and came to the Pulkovo Observatory near Saint Petersburg in 1868 as an extra-budgetary astronomer . In 1871 he was adjunct there , in 1873 senior astronomer ( observator ) and in 1890 for a short time vice director. In the aftermath of the 1917 revolution , he later moved back to Stockholm.
Nyrén dealt mainly with stellar astronomy and determined several of the most important astronomical fundamental quantities anew: the precession constant , the nutation constant and the aberration constant .
Its main activity extended to the production of the fundamental catalogs of the Pulkowa observatory.
Publications
- Détermination du constant coefficient de la précession au moyen d'étoiles de faible éclat . (1870)
- Determinations of the nutation of the earth's axis . (1873)
- The pile height of Pulkowa . (1873)
- The equinox for 1865 . (1877)
- L'aberration des étoiles fixes . (1883)
- Variations de la latitude de Poulkova . (1893)
literature
- Magnus Nyren . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Norrsken – Paprocki . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1914, Sp. 264 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Ö. Mountain beach: announcement of the death of Magnus Nyrén. In: Astronomische Nachrichten , Volume 212, 1921, S. 487, bibcode : 1921AN .... 212..487B
- HPH: Obituary Notices: Nyrén, Magnus . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , Vol. 82 (1922), p. 264 (English), bibcode : 1922MNRAS..82..264. (Obituary)
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| SURNAME | Nyren, Magnus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brunskog, Varmland , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1921 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |