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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer and academic (d. 1864)

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.

15 April 1793

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