Karl Friedrich Küstner
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Karl Friedrich Küstner (born in Görlitz on 22 August 1856, died 15 October 1936) was a German astronomer who also made contributions to Geodesy. In 1888, he reportedly discovered the Polar motion of the Earth.[1] In 1910, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for cataloguing stars and detecting latitude variation.[2]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He received his PhD from the University of Strasbourg in 1879 under Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke.[3]
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