Elis Strömgren
Svante Elis Strömgren (31 May 1870 – 5 April 1947) was a Swedish–Danish astronomer.
Strömgren was born in 1870 in
Copenhagen Observatory of the University of Copenhagen in 1907. He died in Copenhagen in 1947. The minor planet 1422 Strömgrenia
was named in his honour.
Strömgren worked in a variety of fields but was particularly interested in theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics, publishing works on the origin and orbits of comets. He also worked on the calculations for Jens Olsen's World Clock after 1928.
His spouse, the dentist and writer Hedvig Lidforss (1877–1967), was daughter of the philologist Edvard Lidforss in Lund, and sister of the publicist and botanist Bengt Lidforss. Elis Strömgren's sons were the astronomer Bengt Strömgren, who succeeded his father in Copenhagen in 1940 and Erik Strömgren notable danish psychiatrist.
References
- Astrophysical Institute Potsdam.
External links
- Works by or about Elis Strömgren at Internet Archive
- Biography of Elis Strömgren (in Danish)
- Biography in Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish)
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