Åke Wallenquist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetÅke Wallenquist
Swedish astronomer
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Place of Birth: Västervik, Kalmar County, Sweden
About Åke Wallenquist
- Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist (January 16, 1904 – April 8, 1994) was a Swedish astronomer.
- He worked at the Dutch Bosscha Observatory in Indonesia between 1928 and 1935, and became assistant professor at Uppsala's Kvistabergs Observatorium (Kvistaberg Observatory) in 1948.
- He worked originally on double stars but it was the open star clusters and their properties that became his main area of research.
- Wallenquist was a very active member of both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm and the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala.
- From the 1950s onwards, he was the leading writer of popular astronomy in Sweden among the professional astronomers.
- His books inspired generations of young people to become interested in astronomy. Asteroid 2114 Wallenquist was named in his honour.
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