Asteroids named after people called Gustav
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(6516) Gruss
Czech astronomer Gustav Gruss (1854-1922) was head of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech division of Charles University in Prague from 1891 to 1914. He studied the spectroscopy of variable stars. The name was suggested by J. Ticha and M. Šolc.Discovered 3 October 1988 by A. Mrkos, Klet
(9903) Leonhardt
Named for Gustav Leonhardt (b. 1928), eminent Dutch harpsichordist, conductor and pedagogue. As a harpsichordist, he has made many concert tours of Europe and North America and recorded a large number of baroque works.Discovered 4 July 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(10122) Froding
The Swedish poet Gustav Fröding (1860-1911) suffered from inherited mental illness. A journalist for the radical newspaper Karlstad-Tidningen, he became inspired by Nietzsche's work. The highly vocal elements in his poems inspired Sibelius to set several of them to music.Discovered 27 January 1993 by E. W. Elst, Caussols
(10358) Kirchhoff
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887) was a German physicist who, together with Robert Bunsen, founded the discipline of spectrum analysis. They demonstrated that an element gives off a characteristic colored light when heated to incandescence.Discovered 9 October 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(11019) Hansrott
Much admired by Gustav Mahler, the Austrian composer Hans Rott (1858–1884) completed his Symphony in E Major in 1880. Rott died at the age of 26 in a Viennese lunatic asylum. The name was suggested by J. Meeus.Discovered 25 April 1984 by A. Mrkos, Klet
(11041) Fechner
Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) was a German physicist and philosopher who founded the science of psychophysics. In his Elemente der Psychophysik (1860) he established a relation between sensations and the stimuli producing them (i.e., the “Weber-Fechner Law”).Discovered 26 September 1989 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(12637) Gustavleonhardt
Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012), Dutch harpsichord player and conductor, was the founder of the Leonhardt Consort, dedicated to performing baroque music on period instruments. In 1971, together with N. Harnoncourt and his Concentus Musicus, Leonhardt initiated the first complete recording of Bach's Cantatas.Discovered 29 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(14980) Gustavbrom
Gustav Brom (Gustav Frkal, 1921-1995) was a popular Czech jazz musician, conductor, composer and singer. After a very difficult youth he established in Brno in 1941 a famous big band bearing his name. Under his direction it became the leading Czech jazz orchestra for more than fifty years.Discovered 5 October 1997 by L. Sarounova, Ondrejov
(15860) Siran
Slovak geophysicist Gustáv Siráň (1934-2000) was a professor at Comenius University, Bratislava. From 1981 to 1989 he was head of the department of astronomy, geophysics and meteorology, and during this time the Astronomical and Geophysical Observatory in Modra was built.Discovered 20 April 1996 by Galad, A., Kalmancok, D., Modra
(16445) Klimt
Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement. His paintings, characterized by elegant gold and colorful ornamentation, express subtle erotic feelings, as in Die Jungfrau (1907) and Dana (1913).Discovered 3 April 1989 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(18872) Tammann
Swiss cosmologist Gustav Tammann (b. 1932), a professor of astronomy at the University of Basle, is a world-renowned specialist in the determination of the Hubble constant.Discovered 8 November 1999 by S. Sposetti, Gnosca
(24967) Fristensky
Czech wrestler Gustav Frištenský (1879-1957) was an amateur and professional European champion in Greco-Roman wrestling. During his almost half-a-century-long career, he won about 10,000 matches. A great Czech patriot, he supported widows of policemen killed in action and retired sportsmen without decent income.Discovered 14 January 1998 by L. Sarounova, Ondrejov
(38976) Taeve
Gustav Adolf Schur (b. 1931), better known as Taeve, is one of the most popular German cyclists. He won the Peace Race (a cycling event held in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic) in 1955 and 1959 and became Road-Cycling World Champion in Reims (1958) and Zandvoort (1959).Discovered 21 October 2000 by G. Lehmann, Drebach
(535530) Gustavborn
Gustav Born (1921–2018) was the son of Nobel Prize laureate Max Born. Gustav was a German pharmacologist who invented the Born aggregometer and revolutionized the study of platelets. He established the Gustav Born Prize for extraordinary achievements at the Max-Born-Gymnasium Backnang. Name suggested by L. Miletic and G. Dietze, who participated in the IASC.Discovered 16 January 2015 by Pan-STARRS 1, Haleakala
(544309) Reuss
Gustáv Reuss (1818–1861) was a well-known Slovak physician, writer and polymath. He published works in the fields of medicine, botany, archaeology, ethnography and astronomy. He is known as Slovakia's father of sci-fi literature due to his novel Hviezdoveda, where he wrote about Moon travel a few years before Jules Verne.Discovered 20 October 2014 by K. Sárneczky S. Kürti, Piszkesteto