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Heinrich Schwabe

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German astronomer (1789-1875)

ScientistsLived 1789 to 1875 · aged 85
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Samuel Heinrich Schwabe was a German amateur astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. He observed sunspots and made drawings of them from 1825 to 1867 and suggested in 1838 that there may be a ten-year cycle of sunspot activity.

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1868Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1857Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Scientists born in the 1780s 6

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Samuel Heinrich Schwabe was a German amateur astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. He observed sunspots and made drawings of them from 1825 to 1867 and suggested in 1838 that there may be a ten-year cycle of sunspot activity. He also took an interest in botany and was a founding member of a natural history society in Dessau.

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Lived 1789 to 1875 · aged 85
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