Carl Theodor Albrecht
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Carl Theodor Albrecht (August 30, 1843 – August 31, 1915) was a German astronomer.
He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the TU Dresden and the Universität Berlin. He specialized in geodesy, to which he devoted much of his career. He also worked on the problem of variation of latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler who discovered the Chandler wobble.
[edit] Further reading
- Baumgärtel, Hans (1970). "Albrecht, Carl Theodor". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 103. ISBN 0684101149.
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[edit] Obituaries
- AN 201 (1915) 269/270 (German)
- MNRAS 76 (1916) 282
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