Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Baltic German astronomer and geodesist (1793–1864)
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- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist.
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve 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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