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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Bessel has received more than 304,992 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Friedrich Bessel is the 66th most popular mathematician (up from 81st in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Germany (up from 415th in 2019) and the 9th 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 66 out of 1,004. Before him are August Ferdinand Möbius, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Hermann Minkowski, Bhāskara II, Urbain Le Verrier, and Simon Stevin. After him are Abraham de Moivre, Ludolph van Ceulen, Giuseppe Peano, Richard Dedekind, Alexander Grothendieck, and Nikolai Lobachevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Friedrich Bessel ranks 4. Before him are Ferdinand VII of Spain, Jérôme Bonaparte, and Zachary Taylor. After him are Marie-Antoine Carême, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Louis Spohr, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Karl Thomas Mozart, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, and Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily. 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, Andrew Kim Taegon, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Giuseppe Acerbi, Rodolphe Töpffer, Otto von Kotzebue, and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Bessel ranks 325 out of 7,253. Before him are Ilse Koch (1906), Gustav Stresemann (1878), Franz Halder (1884), Frederick I of Sweden (1676), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), and Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779). After him are Michael Haneke (1942), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), August Kekulé (1829), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Einhard (770), and Karl Haushofer (1869).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Friedrich Bessel ranks 9. Before him are Bernhard Riemann (1826), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Emmy Noether (1882), Gottlob Frege (1848), Karl Weierstrass (1815), and August Ferdinand Möbius (1790). After him are Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Regiomontanus (1436), Felix Klein (1849), and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804).

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