Karl Friedrich Küstner
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Karl Friedrich Küstner (born in Görlitz on August 22, 1856; died October 15, 1936) was a German astronomer who also made contributions to Geodesy. In 1888 he reportedly discovered the Polar motion of the Earth.[1] In 1910 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for cataloguing stars and detecting latitude variation.[2]
He received his PhD from the University of Strasbourg in 1879 under Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke.[3]
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- ↑ Astrophysics Institute of Potsdam
- ↑ ADSABS Harvard
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