# Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

> He found a tidy way to map comet paths, then stumbled on two of the first asteroids ever spotted — chunks of rock that rewrote what the solar system looked like.

*German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1758-10-11
- **Died:** 1840-03-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a German astronomer born on 11 October 1758. He devised a convenient method for calculating the orbits of comets, work that made tracking those icy wanderers less of a guessing game. In 1802 he discovered Pallas, the second asteroid known to science, and five years later, in 1807, he found Vesta, the fourth. Both discoveries arrived at a moment when the space between Mars and Jupiter was revealing itself to be far more crowded than anyone had imagined. He died on 2 March 1840.

## Fame
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- **Category rank:** #186

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Physics, #Astronomy, #Medicine, #Politics, #Early Modern Era

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