Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German astronomer
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Place of Birth: Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai
- Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai (October 25, 1793 – June 4, 1846) was a German astronomer. Born in Braunschweig, Nicolai was educated at Göttingen.
- In 1812, he calculated the Euler–Mascheroni constant to 40 decimal places.
- In 1816, he joined the Mannheim observatory where he became the director. The crater Nicolai on the Moon is named after him.
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