Samuel Oppenheim
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1857 – 1928
Who was Samuel Oppenheim?
Samuel Oppenheim was an Austrian astronomer.
In 1875 Oppenheim began to study mathematics, physics and astronomy in Vienna. He took his Staatsexamen in 1880. From 1881–1887 he worked at the Observatory of Vienna and from 1888–1896 at the Kuffner observatory in Vienna. He attained the Doctorate in 1884 and the Habilitation in 1910 for theoretical astronomy. After working as a teacher in Prague, he was Professor ordinarius for astronomy at the University of Vienna.
Oppenheim's field of research was mainly in the field of celestial mechanics. He was co-editor of the Astronomy section of Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften.
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- Born
- Nov 19, 1857
Brušperk - Nationality
- Austria
- Died
- Aug 15, 1928
Vienna
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on July 23, 2013
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