Wilhelm Gliese

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Wilhelm Gliese (June 21, 1915 – June 12, 1993) was a German astronomer.

Gliese was born in Goldberg, in the modern Polish Silesia. He worked at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, first in Berlin and then in Heidelberg. He is best known for his Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars, and some stars are best known by the catalogue number he gave them, such as Gliese 581 and Gliese 710.

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• Gliese catalog The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.
• MitAG 77 (1994) 5–7 (Obituary in German)