Friedrich Bessel
1784 CE–1846 CE · Minden
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.
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- Humphry Davy· 1778 CE–1829 CE
- Jons Jacob Berzelius· 1779 CE–1848 CE
- Siméon Denis Poisson· 1781 CE–1840 CE
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- Georg Ohm· 1789 CE–1854 CE
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy· 1789 CE–1857 CE
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