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name: "Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve"
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description: "He measured the shape of the earth itself — a triangulation survey stretching from the Arctic to the Black Sea that still bears his name, and spent years cataloging double stars most astronomers couldn't see."
tagline: "Baltic German astronomer (1793–1864)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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  Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was born on 15 April 1793, a Baltic German who would become known in Russia as Vasily Yakovlevich Struve. He made his name studying double stars, the paired points of light that demanded patience and precision to resolve. Then he turned to geodesy and initiated a triangulation survey of unprecedented scale, a chain of measurements later named the Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor. The work spanned latitudes, fixing coordinates across a continent. He died on 23 November 1864, having left coordinates where before there were only estimates.