Wilhelm Gliese (June 21 1915 – June 12 1993) was a German astronomer. Gliese was born in Goldberg, in the modern Polish Silesia. He worked at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, first in Berlin and then in Heidelberg. He is best known for his Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars, and some stars are best known by the catalogue number he gave them, such as Gliese 581 and Gliese 710.
External links
- Gliese catalog
- MitAG 77 (1994) 5–7 (Obituary in German)
