Boss L'yuis
5.01.2007 3:42 | "Astronomy"

Amerikanskii astronom, chlen Nacional'noi AN SShA (1889). R. v Providense (sht. Rod-Ailend). V 1870 okonchil Dartmutskii kolledzh. Rabotal klerkom v razlichnyh gosudarstvennyh uchrezhdeniyah v Vashingtone, a takzhe v Morskoi observatorii SShA. V 1872-1870 rabotal astronomom v ekspedicii, zanimavsheisya provedeniem granicy mezhdu SShA i Kanadoi vdol' 49-i paralleli. S 1876 - direktor observatorii Dadli (Olbani, sht. N'yu-'ork).

Bond Dzhordzh Fillips
5.01.2007 3:42 | "Astronomy"

Amerikanskii astronom. R. v Dorchestere (sht. Massachusets). V 1845 okonchil Garvardskii un-t. Rabotal v Garvardskoi observatorii (s 1859 - direktor), s 1859 -professor astronomii Garvardskogo un-ta. Vmeste so svoim otcom U. K. Bondom - osnovatelem i pervym direktorom Garvardskoi observatorii - otkryl vos'moi sputnik Saturna - Giperion (1848) i krepovoe kol'co Saturna (1850). Vmeste s U.

fon Auvers Artur Yulius Georg Fridrih
5.01.2007 3:41 | "Astronomy"

Nemeckii astronom, chlen Berlinskoi AN (1866). R. v Gettingene. Uchilsya v Gettingenskom i Kenigsbergskom un-tah (1857-1862). S 1866 - astronom Berlinskoi AN. S 1878 do poslednih let zhizni - sekretar' Berlinskoi AN. Nauchnye raboty otnosyatsya k pozicionnoi astronomii. Osnovatel' nemeckoi shkoly fundamental'noi astrometrii. Sostavil pervye dva fundamental'nyh kataloga FK (1879) i NFK (1907).

Abu-l-Vafa
5.01.2007 3:41 | "Astronomy"

Polnoe imya: Abu-l-Vafa Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Yah'ya ibn Ismail ibn al-Abbasal-Buzdzhani Arabskii astronom i matematik. R. v Buzdzhane (Horasan). S 960 provodil nablyudeniya v Bagdadskoi observatorii. V napisannom im traktate po astronomii «Kniga Almagesta» svedeny astronomicheskie znaniya togo vremeni, a takzhe izlozheny rezul'taty ego rabot.