Asteroids named after people called Georg
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Named in memory of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799). In his time he was one of Europe's best-known experimental physicists. He worked in Göttingen, Germany, and in Brighton, England. Even today, he is known for his aphorisms, such as: “it is almost impossible to carry the torch of the truth through a crowd without singeing someone's beard”, “the healthy scholar is the man for whom thinking is not an illness” and “I always feel pain when a gifted person dies---the world has a greater need for these than the heavens”. Name proposed by K.-O. Groeneveld.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Named in memory of Georg Aunpekh von Peuerbach (1423-1461), professor at the University of Vienna, astronomer at the court of emperor Friedrich III, mathematician, poet, early humanist and teacher of Regiomontanus. He discovered the magnetic declination, introduced sines into trigonometry and invented the foldable sundial, the first trustworthy pocket timepiece. Named on the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial tablet on St. Stephan's cathedral in Vienna, where Peuerbach is buried.Discovered 18 February 1998 by Linz, Linz
Georg von Neumayer (1826-1909), German geophysicist and hydrographer, was the founder of the German Hydrographic Office. Neumayer is known as an outstanding Antarctic researcher, and he played a major role in instituting the International Polar Year. His name was given to the German Antarctic station in 1981.Discovered 2 October 1991 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
Georg Marcgraf (1610-1643), astronomer, mathematician and naturalist, made the first serious study of the southern sky during his stay in Dutch Brazil. He is also known for his zoological and cartographic work during the reign of Johan Maurits in Dutch Brazil. Marcgraf died in 1643 in Luanda (then Dutch Angola).Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is a very important philosopher of German idealism. The method and content of his thinking is the dialectic. He lectured at Jena during 1801--1807. He had great influence during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and many later philosophers refer to him.Discovered 3 November 1988 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
Rhaeticus (Georg Joachim Lauchen, 1514-1574) was a humanist, physician, mathematician and astronomer at the universities of Vienna, Leipzig and Wittenberg. He summarized and popularized the work of his teacher Copernicus, initiating the first printing of De Revolutionibus.Discovered 17 January 1998 by Meyer, E., Obermair, E., Linz
Georg Cantor (1845-1918) was a German mathematician and professor at Halle. In a series of papers beginning in 1870 he developed the theory of infinite sets and was the first to recognize and prove that there are different degrees of infinity.Discovered 27 April 2000 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
Georg Ferdinand Frobenius (1849-1917), a professor at the University of Berlin, made major contributions to the theory of abstract groups. The abstract group unifies the concepts of permutation, transformation and composition.Discovered 8 March 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
German physicist Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854) discovered the fundamental law of electrical circuits in 1826 and also formulated the laws of current branchings. In 1843 he defined acoustic sound as a purely sinusoidal oscillation. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 24 September 1992 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
Architect and painter Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699-1753), Frederick the Great's superintendent of the buildings in Prussia, is the main representative of the Frederician Rococo. Best known among his designs are the castle and Sanssouci palace in Potsdam, the opera house at Berlin and the Rheinsberg castle.Discovered 5 October 1994 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
Art historian Georg Dehio (1850-1932) published the fundamental works The Church Architecture of the Occident (1884-1901), Handbook of the Monuments of German Art (1900-1912) and History of the German Arts (1919-1926). The handbook Dehio became a guide essential to amateurs.Discovered 21 August 1987 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
Georg Alexander Pick (1859-1942), Austrian mathematician who worked in Prague, is best known for his theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons. In 1911 he invited Albert Einstein to Prague and introduced him to the field of absolute differential calculus, which later helped Einstein to formulate general relativity.Discovered 7 April 2000 by M. Tichy, Klet
Georg Spalatin (1484-1545) was a German theologian, humanist and historian. In 1502 he went to the University of Wittenberg and had good relations with Martin Luther and to the Reformation. Spalatin was painted by Lukas Cranach, father and son. He died at Altenburg and was buried in the St. Batholomew church.Discovered 10 October 1990 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
A. Georg Pauls (b. 1958) is an engineer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known as the SDSS Camera Project manager and leader of the electronics team. He previously worked for Palomar Observatory, the Mars Observer spacecraft and Big Bear Solar Observatory.Discovered 4 March 2000 by Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Apache Point
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