- Elis Strömgren
Svante Elis Strömgren (
May 31 1870 –April 5 1947 ); Swedish-Danishastronomer .Strömgren was born in
Helsingborg in Scania, received his doctorate atLund University in 1898, becomingdocent there the same year. He worked at theUniversity of Kiel from 1901. He assisted in the publication ofAstronomische Nachrichten from 1901 to 1904. [ [http://www.aip.de/image_archive/Institute.Astronomische_Nachrichten.html Image Archive - Svante Elis Strömgren] -Astrophysical Institute Potsdam .] He became Professor of Astronomy and director of theCopenhagen Observatory of theUniversity of Copenhagen in 1907.He worked in a variety of fields but was particularly interested in
theoretical astronomy andcelestial mechanics , publishing works on the origin and orbits ofcomet s. He also worked on the calculations forJens Olsen's World Clock after 1928.His spouse, the dentist and writer
Hedvig Lidforss (1877-1967) was daughter of the philologistEdvard Lidforss in Lund, and sister of the publicist and botanistBengt Lidforss . Elis Strömgren's son was the astronomerBengt Strömgren , who would in 1940 succeed his father in Copenhagen.External links
* [http://www.udstillinger.dnlb.dk/astroweb/Astronomer/StromgrenElis.html Biography of Elis Strömgren] (in Danish)
* [http://runeberg.org/nfcr/0330.html Biography] inNordisk familjebok (in Swedish)References
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