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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1787, Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer who made achromatic telescopes and objective lenses by refining optical glass to new standards. In 1814, he discovered dark absorption lines in the sun's spectrum — now called Fraunhofer lines — and studied them systematically. He developed diffraction grating and invented the spectroscope, tools that turned those lines into a method for determining the composition of celestial bodies. He died in 1826 at thirty-nine. Europe's largest applied research organization, the Fraunhofer Society, carries his name, and his epitaph reads *Aproximavit sidera*: He brought closer the stars.