Asteroids named after people called Ernst
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Named in memory of Ernst Mach (1838-1916), professor of physics at the universities of Graz and Prague and later professor of philosophy in Vienna. He made investigations on supersonic motion, explosions, electric sparks and philosophical positivism, and the Mach number and Mach's principle are forever associated with his name. Name suggested by J. Ticha and M. Šolc.Discovered 20 October 1985 by A. Mrkos, Klet
Named in memory of Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756–1827), German meteoriticist. Generally regarded as the ‘Father of Meteoritics’, Chladni was initially trained as a lawyer. He never held a permanent position, but he traveled among the great cities of Europe giving lectures. It was on these travels that Chladni's interest turned to meteorites, and in 1794 he published a pioneering book in which he presented convincing evidence that meteorites originate in space. Never before or since has the birth of a scientific discipline been so closely associated with the publication of a single book. Name suggested and citation prepared by T. J. McCoy, who also recently recognized Chladni by the naming of a mineral—chladniite.Discovered 22 March 1985 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878) was a German physiologist who did fundamental research on the sense of touch. In his De Tactu (1834) he stated what became the Weber-Fechner Law: that there is a threshold of sensation that must be passed before an increase in the intensity of the stimulus can be detected.Discovered 3 November 1989 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Ernst Pepping (1901-1981) was an organist and professor of music in Berlin and one of the leading German composers of church music. He rejuvenated sacred and secular choir music. His instrumental and vocal works are very extensive, and his books Stilwende der Musik and Der polyphone Satz set the fashion for their time.Discovered 25 December 1989 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
The naturalist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), a professor of zoology in Jena, was the greatest German representative of the theory of evolution. He extended this theory by inclusion of humans, as well as by formulation of the biogenetic law. In 1908 he founded Jena's Phyletic Museum.Discovered 4 September 1992 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
German surgeon Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951) devised many improvements in surgical procedures, including the so-called pressure-difference procedure in thoracic surgery. He devised artificial limbs that move voluntarily after amputation by using the muscles of the stump.Discovered 30 April 1992 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
Ernst F. F. Zermelo (1871-1953), German mathematician, was mainly interested in the calculus of variations. He is best remembered for his formulation of the axiom of choice: given any (possibly infinite) collection of non-empty sets, there exists a set having one element in common with each set in the collection.Discovered 31 October 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), painter, graphic artist and sculptor, was a master of German expressionism and cofounder of the artist circle “Die Bruecke”. After 1917, he worked and lived in Switzerland. In 1937, his art was confiscated and classified as “degenerate” in Germany, driving him to suicide.Discovered 7 March 1989 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
German patriotic writer and poet Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860), born on the island of Rügen, was a professor of history at the University of Greifswald (which now bears his name), as well as in Bonn. A passionate agitator and singer of the German Wars for Liberation, he stood up for a revival in Germany.Discovered 21 September 1995 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
German sculptor Ernst Rietschel (1804–1861), a pupil of Rauch, created in the classicist style. His main works are the bronze sculptures of Lessing in Braunschweig and Luther in Worms. He also worked the popular Goethe and Schiller monument in front of the Weimar national theater.Discovered 8 October 1991 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
Ernst Eduard Kummer (1811-1893) was a professor at the Universities of Breslau and Berlin. He spent many years working on Fermat's last theorem and obtained a partial proof of it. In the process he developed some important concepts in algebra.Discovered 7 January 2000 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues (1827-1884), an astronomer at the Göttingen Observatory, started as an assistant to Gauss. Between 1853 and 1863 he discovered six comets, and he wrote the treatise Theoretische Astronomie (1871). Klinkerfues also worked in meteorology and invented several instruments.Discovered 16 June 2002 by M. Meyer, Palomar
Ernst Dorfi (b. 1956) is a professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Vienna and one of the most respected astronomical specialists in Austria. In addition to his research, he promotes astronomy at conventions and on television shows.Discovered 17 July 2006 by W. Ries, Altschwendt
Ernst Salpeter, S.J. (1912–1976), an Austrian Jesuit, served at the Specola Vaticana from 1948. He was an expert in spectroscopy, helping produce major spectral atlases and pioneering effective line-width photometry. Ernst also cared for the meteorite collection.Discovered 18 November 2014 by Cernis, K., Boyle, R. P., Mount Graham
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