Béla Harkányi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Béla Harkányi

astronomer, mathematician

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1869

Place of Birth: Pest, Pest County, Hungary

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1932

Profession: astronomer, mathematician

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Béla Harkányi (Baron) (Hungarian: ['be:l? 'h?rka:?i]; 11 April 1869 – 2 January 1932) was a Hungarian astrophysicist. Harkányi was first to determine the temperatures (in 1902) and the diameters (in 1910) of individual stars other than the Sun.