Hermann Carl Vogel
1841–1907
German astrophysicist. Studied at Leipzig. Director of the observatory of F. G. von Bülow at Bothkamp, near Kiel, 1870. A member of the British eclipse expedition to Sicily, 1870. Worked on spectroscopic analysis of the stars. Observer at the astrophysical observatory at Potsdam, 1874; professor, 1879; director, 1882.
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DSB
Eder et al. 1945, p. 463.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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