Rudolph Minkowski
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski Template:IPAc-en;[1] Script error: No such module "IPA".; May 28, 1895 – January 4, 1976) was a German-American astronomer.[2]
Biography
| 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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| Name | Discovery Year | Type | Ref. |
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| 1620 Geographos | 1951 | Asteroid | [7] |
| M1-42 | 1946 | Planetary nebula | [9] |
| M1-63 | 1946 | Planetary nebula | [9] |
| M1-91 | 1946 | Planetary nebula | [9] |
| M1-92 | 1946 | Protoplanetary nebula | [9] |
| M2-9 | 1947 | Planetary nebula | [11] |
| M2-42 | 1947 | Planetary nebula | [11] |
| M4-18 | 1959 | Planetary nebulaTemplate:Efn | [12] |
Bibliography
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Footnotes
References
- ↑ "Minkowski". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
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- ↑ Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present: I–M
- ↑ The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography
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- ↑ Minkowski, R. (1962), Internal Dispersion of Velocities in Other Galaxies
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