Viktor Knorre (1840-1919)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/68939
- Name (English)
- Viktor Knorre
- Short name
- Viktor Knorre
- Year of birth
- 1840
- Year of death
- 1919
- Short Description
- "Viktor Karlovich Knorre Russian: Виктор Карлович Кнорре(4 October 1840 – 25 August 1919) was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin. He worked in Nikolaev, Pulkovo and Berlin and is best known for having discovered 158 Koronis and three other minor planets. Knorre´s father, Karl Friedrich Knorre, and grandfather, Ernst Friedrich Knorre, were also prominent astronomers. Recently, the main-belt asteroid 14339 Knorre was named in honor of the three generations of Knorre astronomers." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.10.2020)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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