physicist | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2008), Fellow of the American Physical Society (2019), Faculty Early Career
Friedrich Bessel
- Minden: July 22, 1784 celebration
- Königsberg: March 17, 1846 celebration



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Friedrich Bessel -
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Kingdom of Prussia -
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Friedrich Bessel -
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel -
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celebration Date of birth
Minden: July 22, 1784 -
deceased Rest in Peace
Königsberg: March 17, 1846 -
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engineering Field of Work
- astronomy
- mathematics
- physics
- geodesy
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school Education
- Ratsgymnasium Minden
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- Lalande Prize (1816)
- Lalande Prize (1811)
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1825)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1812)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1841)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1829)
- Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1842)
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social_leaderboard Notable Works
- Besselian elements
- Bessel function
- Bessel's correction
- Bessel's inequality
- Bessel ellipsoid
- Bessel polynomials
- Bessel potential
- Bessel process
- Fundamenta Astronomiae
- German astronomer and mathematician | Lalande Prize (1816), Lalande Prize (1811), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1825), Fellow of the American Academy of