Arnold Kohlschütter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German astronomer
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Place of Birth: Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Arnold Kohlschütter
- Ernst Arnold Kohlschütter (July 6, 1883 – May 28, 1969) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist from Halle. In 1908 he was awarded his Ph.D.
- from the University of Göttingen under Karl Schwarzschild.In 1911 he began working at the Mount Wilson observatory, studying the spectra of the Sun and stars.
- In collaboration with Walter Sidney Adams, and in 1914 they discovered that the absolute luminosity of a star was proportional to the relative intensity of the lines in the spectrum.
- This allowed astronomers to determine the distance of stars, including main sequence and giants, using the spectroscope. He became the director of the Bonn observatory in 1925.
- Therein he was dedicated to astrometric studies. The crater Kohlschütter on the Moon is named after him.
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