- Paul Götz
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Asteroids discovered: 20 520 Franziska[1] October 27, 1903 538 Friederike July 18, 1904 542 Susanna[2] August 15, 1904 543 Charlotte September 11, 1904 544 Jetta September 11, 1904 545 Messalina October 3, 1904 546 Herodias October 10, 1904 547 Praxedis October 14, 1904 548 Kressida October 14, 1904 554 Peraga January 8, 1905 556 Phyllis January 8, 1905 563 Suleika April 6, 1905 564 Dudu May 9, 1905 566 Stereoskopia May 28, 1905 567 Eleutheria May 28, 1905 568 Cheruskia July 26, 1905 571 Dulcinea September 4, 1905 572 Rebekka September 19, 1905 576 Emanuela September 22, 1905 1418 Fayeta September 22, 1903 1 with Max Wolf
2 with August KopffPaul Götz was an astronomer.
He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1907 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg.[1]
At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery under the direction of Max Wolf, and several past and future fellow Ph.D.s (Raymond Smith Dugan, Joseph Helffrich, Franz Kaiser, Karl Reinmuth, Emil Ernst, Alfred Bohrmann) made a number of asteroid discoveries. Thus the asteroid discoveries by "P. Gotz" at Heidelberg in this time frame are undoubtedly identified with the Paul Götz who got his Ph.D. in 1907.
The asteroid 2278 Götz is named after him.
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Categories:- 20th-century astronomers
- German astronomers
- Asteroid discoverers
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