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Carl Theodor Albrecht (August 30, 1843, Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony – August 31, 1915) was a German astronomer.

He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the TU Dresden and the Universität Berlin. During his time in Dresden, he helped founding Polyhymnia, the fraternity that later became the German Student Corps Altsachsen. He specialized in geodesy, to which he devoted much of his career. He also worked on the problem of variation of latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler who discovered the variation, known as the Chandler wobble. In 1882, Carl Theodor Albrecht was elected as member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Further reading

• Baumgärtel, Hans (1970). "Albrecht, Carl Theodor". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 103. ISBN 0-684-10114-9.

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Obituaries

• AN 201 (1915) 269/270 (in German)
• MNRAS 76 (1916) 282

На других языках

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[de] Carl Theodor Albrecht

Carl Theodor Albrecht (* 30. August 1843 in Dresden; † 31. August 1915 in Potsdam) war ein deutscher Geodät, Astronom und langjähriger Chef der preußischen Erdmessung. Als solcher prägte er die beginnende internationale Kooperation der Geodäsie und war Mitgründer des internationalen Breitendienstes, der heute unter der Bezeichnung Internationaler Dienst für Erdrotation und Referenzsysteme (IERS; englisch: International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service) ein weltweiter Dienst der Internationalen Union für Geodäsie und Geophysik (IUGG) ist.

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- [en] Carl Theodor Albrecht

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[it] Karl Theodor Albrecht

Karl Theodor Albrecht (Dresda, 30 agosto 1843 – Potsdam, 31 agosto 1915) è stato un astronomo e geodeta tedesco.

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