Rudolph Minkowski

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Rudolph Minkowski
Born(1895-05-28)May 28, 1895
Strasbourg, German Empire
DiedJanuary 4, 1976(1976-01-04) (aged 80)
Berkeley, California
Known forsupernovae
AwardsBruce Medal in 1961
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsPalomar Observatory

Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski /mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/;[1] German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; May 28, 1895 – January 4, 1976) was a German-American astronomer.[2]

Biography

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Asteroids discovered: 1[3]
1620 Geographos September 14, 1951

Minkowski was the son of Marie Johanna Siegel and physiologist Oskar Minkowski.[4][5] His uncle was Hermann Minkowski, a mathematician and one of Einstein's teachers in Zürich. Rudolph studied supernovae and, together with Walter Baade, divided them into two classes (Type I and Type II) based on their spectral characteristics.[6] He and Baade also found optical counterparts to various radio sources.

He headed the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, a photographic atlas of the entire northern sky (and south to declination -22°) down to an apparent magnitude of 22.[2]

Together with Albert George Wilson, he co-discovered the near-Earth Apollo asteroid 1620 Geographos in 1951.[7] He additionally discovered a correlation between the luminosity of early-type galaxies and their velocity dispersion,[8] which was later quantified by Faber and Jackson. He won the Bruce Medal in 1961.[2] The lunar crater Minkowski is named after him and his uncle. In the 1940's he created a catalog of nearly 200 planetary nebulae, including Minkowski 2-9,[9] and a dwarf galaxy near NGC 541, known as Minkowski's object, is named after him.[10]

List of discovered astronomical objects

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Bibliography

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Also classified as a protoplanetary nebula according to Surendiranath & Kameswara Rao (1995).[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Minkowski". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
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  4. ^ Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present: I–M
  5. ^ The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography
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  8. ^ Minkowski, R. (1962), Internal Dispersion of Velocities in Other Galaxies
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