Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Von Struve
Born(1793-04-15)15 April 1793
Altona, Duchy of Holstein
Died23 November 1864(1864-11-23) (aged 71)
St Petersburg, Russian Empire
CitizenshipDanish, Russian
Alma materImperial University of Dorpat
AwardsGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1826)
Royal Medal (1827)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy, geodesy

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Струве, romanized: Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.

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