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unusual facts about Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel



Besselian elements

This method was developed in the 1820s by Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, a German mathematician and astronomer, and afterwards improved by William Chauvenet.

Peter Andreas Hansen

Thence he passed on to Gotha as director of the Seeberg observatory; nor could he be tempted to relinquish the post by successive invitations to replace F.G.W. Struve at Dorpat in 1829, and F.W. Bessel at Königsberg in 1847.


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Anna Krylov

In 2011, she was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society; and she won a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for developing robust electronic structure methods for open-shell and electronically excited species, and creative use of ab initio theory to understand the chemistry of bimolecules, reaction intermediates, and photoinduced processes.