Karl Friedrich Küstner

Astronomer

1856 – 1936

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Who was Karl Friedrich Küstner?

Karl Friedrich Küstner was a German astronomer who also made contributions to Geodesy. In 1888 he reportedly discovered the Polar motion of the Earth. In 1910 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for cataloguing stars and detecting latitude variation.

He received his PhD from the University of Strasbourg in 1879 under Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke.

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Born
Aug 22, 1856
Görlitz
Nationality
  • Germany
Education
  • University of Strasbourg
Died
Oct 15, 1936

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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