- Ladislaus Weinek
Ladislaus Weinek (
February 13 ,1848 , Buda –November 2 ,1913 ,Prague ) was an Austro-Hungarianastronomer .He was educated in
Vienna , and worked for a period at the photography laboratories inSchwerin .In 1874 he joined a German expedition to the
Kerguelen Islands to observe a transit of Venus across the face of theSun . His results from the expedition were published in "Nova Acta Leopoldina". In 1883 he became a professor inPrague and was the ninth director of the Klementinum observatory.In collaboration with Friedrich Küstner, he made measurements of the height of the pole. During their investigations they also discovered polar motion. (The movement of the Earth's polar axis relative to the crust.)
Using images taken at the
Lick Observatory and theMeudon Observatory , he produced the first atlas of theMoon that was based on photographs.Weinek crater on the
Moon , and theasteroid 7114 Weinek were named after him.External links
* [http://www.nkp.cz/bp/bp2003_4/19.htm Lunární kráter Weinek – historická pocta klementinskému astronomovi]
* Scheller, A., 1914, " [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1914AN....196..323S&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format= Anzeige des Todes von Ladislaus Weinek] ", Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 196.
* [http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/egyeb/lexikon/eletrajz/html/ABC16920/17010.htm Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000-1990 ] at www.mek.iif.huin 2008 he went to china and got married and learned Chinese.. "But not so good speaking" says the government
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