Otto Heckmann
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Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann was a German mathematician and astronomer, director of the Hamburg Observatory from 1941 to 1962, after which he became the first director of the European Southern Observatory. He actively contributed to the creation of the third issue of the Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog.
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Ramon MargalefAlso won doctor honoris causa from the University of Aix-Marseille
George Van BiesbroeckAlso won James Craig Watson Medal
Donald Howard MenzelAlso won Prix Jules Janssen
Donald Lynden-BellAlso won Bruce Medal
André-Louis DanjonAlso won Prix Jules Janssen
David Todd WilkinsonAlso won James Craig Watson MedalAbout this person
Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann was a German mathematician and astronomer, director of the Hamburg Observatory from 1941 to 1962, after which he became the first director of the European Southern Observatory. He actively contributed to the creation of the third issue of the Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog. He also contributed to cosmology based on the fundamentals of general relativity, and in 1942 wrote the book Theorien der Kosmologie.
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