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Oskar Backlund

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31: 492: 502: 482: 497: 472: 507: 477: 537: 173: 517: 64:(Оскар Андреевич Баклунд). Russian sources sometimes give his dates of birth and death as 16 April 1846 and 16 August 1916, since Russia still used the 532: 522: 462: 512: 487: 346: 288: 258: 140: 467: 132: 115:, taking into account the perturbations of various planets. He used observations of Comet Encke to try estimate the mass of 136: 527: 313: 156: 365: 457: 452: 433: 424: 414: 375: 370: 244: 334: 250: 108: 101: 77: 89: 85: 281: 119:. Russian sources sometimes referred to the comet as Comet Encke-Backlund. He also carried out 342: 254: 193: 402: 88:
in 1872. After getting his doctorate in 1875, he emigrated to Russia in 1876. He worked at
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Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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He was married to Ulrika Catharina Widebeck. Their daughter
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https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=234324
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in 1911. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the
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Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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Backlund, Johan Oskar (Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon)
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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Jons Oskar Backlund

Swedish
Russian
astronomer
Russia
Julian calendar
Västergötland
Sweden
Uppsala University
Dorpat Observatory
Tartu
Estonia
Pulkovo Observatory
celestial mechanics
Comet Encke
Mercury
geodesic
Spitzbergen
Saint Petersburg
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Fellow of the Royal Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Elsa Celsing
Helge Gotrik Backlund
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bruce Medal
Backlund
Moon
Asteroid

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