Richard Prager
Richard Prager (born November 30, 1883 in Hanover , † July 20, 1945 in Cambridge / Mass ) was a German astronomer .
Life
Prager studied astronomy in Marburg, Göttingen and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1908. From 1909 to 1913 he was head of department at the observatory in Santiago de Chile. From 1913 he worked initially as an assistant at the University of Berlin , from 1916 as an observator and from 1924 as a professor at the Neubabelsberg observatory . In 1938 he was arrested as a Jew. British friends obtained his release so that he could emigrate.
Since 1939 he taught at Harvard University .
Fonts (selection)
- Catalog of 8303 stars , 1923
- Catalog of 1885 stars for the 1925 equinox , 1924
literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss , (Ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 923
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (Reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925), Volume 7, p. 593
Web links
- Publications by R. Prager in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituaries for R. Prager in the Astrophysics Data System
- portrait
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prager, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1945 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts |