Per Collinder
Per Arne Collinder (born May 22, 1890 in Sundsvall , † December 6, 1974 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish astronomer .
Collinder worked at the Lund Observatory . With his dissertation from 1931 he published a fundamental work on the structure of open star clusters and their spatial distribution in the galaxy ( On the Structural Properties of Galactic Open Clusters and Their Spatial Distribution ). The work contains a list of 471 open star clusters known today as the Collinder Catalog . He has also published a volume on the history of nautical science and works on the history of astronomy in Sweden.
Collinder was married twice. He had four children with his first wife.
literature
- Collinder, By A . In: Sten Lagerström, Elvan Sölvén (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1969 . 29th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1968, ISSN 0347-3341 , p. 177 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Per Collinder (1890–1975) . In: Journal for the History of Astronomy . tape 7 , 1976, p. 224 (English, harvard.edu - short obituary).
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SURNAME | Collinder, Per |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Collinder, Per Arne |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1890 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sundsvall |
DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1974 |
Place of death | Uppsala |