Friedrich Bessel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German astronomer and mathematician
Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1784
Place of Birth: Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Date of Death: 17-Mar-1846
Profession: astronomer, physicist, mathematician, university teacher, geodesist
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Friedrich Bessel
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (German: ['b?sl?]; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist and geodesist.
- He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the sun to another star by the method of parallax.
- A special type of mathematical functions were named Bessel functions after Bessel's death, though they had originally been discovered by Daniel Bernoulli and then generalised by Bessel.
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