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Palisa, Johann

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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

BornTroppau, (Opava, Cech Republic), 6 December 1848

DiedVienna, Austria, 2 May 1925

Johann Palisa was an excellent astronomical observer, discovering many minor planets whose orbits he helped to determine. He came from a poor family; his father dealt in salt. Palisa married twice. Two of his daughters married astronomers, Erna to Friedrich Bidschof, astronomer in Vienna and Trieste, and Hedwig to Joseph Rheden, a keen observer and collaborator of Palisa’s. Palisa’s mathematical abilities appeared quite early; after finishing school in Troppau, he began to study mathematics and astronomy at the University of Vienna in 1866. The astronomers of the old Vienna Observatory ( Karl von Littrow , Edmund Weiss , and Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer ) enabled him to earn some money doing observational and computational work. In 1870, after completing his military service, Palisa received a position at the observatory, located in the center of town, measuring positions of stars and planets with a...

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  1. Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Anneliese Schnell

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Schnell, A. (2014). Palisa, Johann. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1046

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