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IRSOL > News archive > 200th birthday of Swiss astronomer Rudolf Wolf
Posted on 27 July 201622 September 2017

200th birthday of Swiss astronomer Rudolf Wolf

The Swiss Astronomer Rudolf Wolf was born on 7 July 1816.He was the first director of the Swiss Federal Observatory in Zurich and he is well known for his studies about the solar cycle and the sunspot observations.

For more information see the nice article published by the ETH-library in Zurich:

Astronomy and solar research – Rudolf Wolf and his legacy

 

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