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Name: Ejnar Hertzsprung
Birth Date: 1873
Death Date: 1967
Nationality: Danish
Gender: Male
Occupations: astronomer

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Biography of Ejnar Hertzsprung
396 words, approx. 1 pages
Born in Frederiksberg, Denmark on October 8, 1873, Hertzsprung was trained as a chemical engineer, but he was also an amateur astronomer and so impressed Karl Schwarzschild (1877-1916) with his knowledge that Schwarzchild offered him a professorship in...
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Biography of Ejnar Hertzsprung
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Born in Frederiksberg, Denmark, on October 8, 1873, Hertzsprung was trained as a chemical engineer, but he was also an amateur astronomer and so impressed Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916) with his knowledge that Schwarzchild offered him a professorship...


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1873-1967 Danish Astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung introduced the concept of absolute magnitude, the intrinsic brightness of a star. He worked out the relationship between a star's brightness and its color (which indicates its surface temperature) at...
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Ejnar Hertzsprung (October 8, 1873, Copenhagen – October 21, 1967, Roskilde) was a Danish chemist and astronomer. In the period 1911-1913 with Henry Norris Russell, he developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. In 1913 he determined the distances...


 

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