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Carl Theodor Albrecht

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Name
  
Carl Albrecht

Role
  
Astronomer

Died
  
August 31, 1915


Carl Theodor Albrecht

Education
  
Dresden University of Technology

Carl Theodor Albrecht (August 30, 1843, Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony – August 31, 1915) was a German astronomer.

He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the TU Dresden and the Universität Berlin. During his time in Dresden, he helped founding Polyhymnia, the fraternity that later became the German Student Corps Altsachsen. He specialized in geodesy, to which he devoted much of his career. He also worked on the problem of variation of latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler who discovered the variation, known as the Chandler wobble.

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Carl Theodor Albrecht Wikipedia