Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Russian-German astronomer
Died when: 71 years 222 days (859 months)Star Sign: Aries
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: ??????? ????????? ??????, trans. Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family.
He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.
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