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FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL

• FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL (noun)
The noun FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL has 1 sense:

1. German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846)

Familiarity information: FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL used as a noun is very rare.

• FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL (noun)

Sense 1

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bessel; Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)

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