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Friedrich Bessel

1784 - 1846

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (German: [ˈbɛsl̩]; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun to another star by the method of parallax. Certain important mathematical functions were first studied systematically by Bessel and were named Bessel functions in his honour. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Bessel is the 56th most popular mathematician (up from 66th in 2019), the 266th most popular biography from Germany (up from 325th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Mathematician.

Friedrich Bessel is most famous for determining the orbit of the star 61 Cygni and the distance from Earth to the Sun.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Friedrich Bessel ranks 56 out of 1,004. Before him are George Boole, Abraham de Moivre, Archytas, August Ferdinand Möbius, Josef Stefan, and Sophie Germain. After him are Charles Sanders Peirce, Philolaus, Karl Weierstrass, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Marin Mersenne, and Émilie du Châtelet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Friedrich Bessel ranks 1. After him are Zachary Taylor, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Jérôme Bonaparte, Marie-Antoine Carême, Louis Spohr, Karl Thomas Mozart, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, and Rafael del Riego. Among people deceased in 1846, Friedrich Bessel ranks 3. Before him are Pope Gregory XVI, and Louis Bonaparte. After him are Emperor Ninkō, Friedrich List, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, Andrew Kim Taegon, Rodolphe Töpffer, Otto von Kotzebue, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, and Jean-Gaspard Deburau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Bessel ranks 266 out of 7,253. Before him are Anne of Cleves (1515), Hans Holbein the Younger (1497), Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Ludwig Erhard (1897), Konstantin von Neurath (1873), and Albert Kesselring (1885). After him are Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Max Stirner (1806), Max Scheler (1874), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), Oswald Spengler (1880), and Leopold von Ranke (1795).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Friedrich Bessel ranks 8. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Gottlob Frege (1848), Emmy Noether (1882), and August Ferdinand Möbius (1790). After him are Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Regiomontanus (1436), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804).

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