Carl Vilhelm Ludwig Charlier (April 1, 1862 – November 5, 1934) was a Swedish astronomer. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 1862 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Monday Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Historically Astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky while Astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena
He received his Ph. D. from Uppsala University in 1887, later worked there and at the Stockholm Observatory and was Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Lund University from 1897. Uppsala University ( Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a world-class research University in Uppsala, Sweden. The Stockholm Observatory (Swedish Stockholms observatorium) is an astronomical institution in Stockholm Sweden founded in the 18th century and today part of Stockholm Lund University (Lunds universitet located in Lund in southernmost Sweden is one of Sweden 's most prestigious Universities and one of Scandinavia
He translated Isaac Newton's Principia into Swedish.
He made extensive statistical studies of the stars in our galaxy and their positions and motions, and tried to develop a model of the galaxy based on this.
Related to his work on galactic structure, he also developed a cosmological theory based on the work of Johann Heinrich Lambert. In the resulting Lambert-Charlier Hierarchical Cosmology, increasingly large areas of space contain decreasing densities of matter, the principle being introduced to avoid the observational inconsistency that would otherwise emerge from Olbers Paradox.
Named after him
- Charlier crater on the Moon
- Crater on Mars
- Asteroid 8677 Charlier
External links
- Bruce Medal page
- Awarding of Bruce Medal: PASP 45 (1933) 5
- Gustav Holmberg: Astronomy in Sweden 1860-1940
Obituaries
The James Craig Watson Medal was established by the bequest of James Craig Watson, and is awarded by the U Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to Astronomy. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Charlier is a lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. In the broadest sense the term impact crater can be applied to any depression natural or manmade resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with larger body Asteroids, sometimes called Minor planets or planetoids', are bodies—primarily of the inner Solar System —that are smaller than planets but 8677 Charlier (1992 ES5 is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on, by atDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic