Citizenship Germany Died January 4, 2000 Known for Asteroid discovery Alma mater Heidelberg University | Name Alfred Bohrmann Fields Astronomy Role Astronomer | |
Institutions University of Heidelberg Discovered 1998 Titius, 2350 von Lude, 1531 Hartmut | ||
Institution Heidelberg University | ||
Alfred Bohrmann (February 28, 1904 – January 4, 2000) was a German astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1927 at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory, at the University of Heidelberg. At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery by Max Wolf and Karl Reinmuth and others, and during his time there Bohrmann discovered 9 of asteroids. Bohrmann worked at the observatory from 1924 to 1969, and published more than 700 minor planet observations. He left the observatory after a dispute with the higher authority.
The asteroid 1635 Bohrmann is named after him.
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