Thaddeus Vincenty

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Thaddeus Vincenty (born 27 October 1920 in Grodzisko, Poland; died 6 March 2002 in Washington Grove, Maryland, USA) was a Polish geodesist who worked with the U.S. Air Force and later the National Geodetic Survey to adapt three-dimensional adjustment techniques to NAD 83. [1] He's best known for the Vincenty formulae, a geodesic calculation technique published in 1975 and known for their extreme accuracy — about one-half millimeter. [2][3] Vincenty received the Department of Commerce Medal for Meritorious Service in 1982. [4]

Vincenty and his wife Barbara had one daughter, two sons, and three grandchildren at the time of his death. [1]

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  1. ^ a b Thaddeus Vincenty's obituary, Gazette.net, March 2002
  2. ^ Vincenty formula for distance between two Latitude/Longitude points, Movable-type.co.uk, retrieved 29 Dec 2006
  3. ^ Direct and Inverse Solutions of Geodesics on the Ellipsoid with application of nested equations, Survey Review, April 1975
  4. ^ Department of Commerce Medal recipients, 1980-1991, retrieved 29 Dec 2006
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