Rodolphe Radau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German astronomer and mathematician
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Place of Birth: Węgorzewo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
About Rodolphe Radau
- Jean Charles Rodolphe Radau (January 22, 1835 – December 21, 1911) was an astronomer and mathematician who worked in Paris at the Revue des deux Mondes for most of his life.
- He was the co-founder of the Bulletin Astronomique. Radau was born in Angerburg, Province of Prussia (now Wegorzewo in Poland), and after studying in Königsberg and working on the Three-body problem, he moved to Paris to collaborate with other scientists.
- In 1871 he was given the Ph.D.
- in honor of his work in mathematics.
- Radau won the Prix Damoiseau of the French Academy of Sciences in 1892 working on planetary perturbations in the motion of the Moon.
- This work was of such a high quality that he was elected to the Academy in 1897. A crater on Mars is named in Radau's honor.
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