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Otto Lyudvigovich Struve ( Russian: Отто Людвигович Струве; 12 August 1897 – 6 April 1963 [2]) was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin. Otto was the descendant of famous astronomers of the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and great-grandson of Friedrich ...
- April 6, 1963 (aged 65), Berkeley, California, U.S.
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Apr 10, 2024 · Otto Struve was a Russian-American astronomer known for his contributions to stellar spectroscopy, notably the discovery of the widespread distribution of hydrogen and other elements in space. Struve was the last member of a dynasty of astronomers and a great-grandson of the noted astronomer.
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Otto Struve, (1897–1963) was one of the few eminent astronomers in the pre-Space Age era to express publicly his belief that extraterrestrial intelligence was abundant and he was an early advocate of the search for extraterrestrial life.
Otto Struve. 1948. Date of Birth. : August 12, 1897. Date of Death. : April 4, 1963. Otto Struve was descended from three generations of noted astronomers. His education at the University of Kharkov was interrupted by World War I and the Russian Civil War, which left him a refugee in Turkey.
Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 ( Julian calendar: April 25) – April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his name is normally given as Otto Vasil'evich Struve (Отто Васильевич Струве). Together with his father, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Otto Wilhelm von Struve is ...
Otto Struve was born on August 12, 1897, on his family's estate in Kharkov, in the Ukraine, where his father Ludwig was director of the Kharkov University Observatory. In the Bancroft library at the University of California, Berkeley, there are a few pictures relating to Struve's early years.
Otto Struve Telescope. Struve Telescope with dome open. When the Otto Struve Telescope was completed in 1939, its dome housed the 82-inch (2.1-meter) telescope — then the second-largest in the world — and living and sleeping quarters for the astronomers who used the telescope.
