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
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on July 23, 2013
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