Paul Kempf
Paul Friedrich Ferdinand Kempf (born June 3, 1856 in Berlin , † February 16, 1920 in Potsdam ) was a German astronomer .
Live and act
After graduation in Berlin, Kempf briefly studied in Heidelberg and then astronomy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where, at the age of 22, in 1878, with the work Investigations on the Ptolemaic Theory of Moon Movement, he became a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. His scientific teachers were Wilhelm Foerster and Friedrich Tietjen .
After completing his doctorate, he went to the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam , which was still being set up , where he initially assisted Gustav Spörer with his sunspot observations. Solar research subsequently became his main field of work. He has published many papers, including the rotation of the sun and refraction in the solar atmosphere. A large number of publications were produced in close cooperation with Gustav Müller , for example on the determination of 300 lines in the solar spectrum and the Potsdam photometric survey of the northern sky . He took part in various expeditions abroad: in 1882 to South America, in 1887 and 1914 to Russia and in 1894 to Italy. He was the editor of the book Popular Astronomy by Simon Newcomb and Rudolph Engelmann.
From 1915 Kempf was a member of the board of the Astronomical Society . In 1919 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
literature
- G. Müller: Paul Kempf . In: Astronomical News . tape 210 , no. 23 , 1920, p. 391-392 .
- Thomas Hockey, Virginia Trimble et al. a. (Ed.): Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . Springer, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Paul Kempf in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- Bibliography Paul Kempf at the Astrophysics Data System
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Paul Kempf at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on March 10, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kempf, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kempf, Paul Friedrich Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1920 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |