Friedrich Hopfner
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1881 – 1949
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Who was Friedrich Hopfner?
Friedrich Hopfner was an Austrian geodesist, geophysicist and planetary scientist.
As an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Empire he began his scientific work at the Bureau of Meteorology. In 1921 he became Chief Astronomer at the new Geodetic Survey of Austria. From 1936 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1949 he was a Professor at the Vienna University of Technology and over the 1948-9 term he was the university's rector.
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