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Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist (Västervik, 16 gennaio 1904 – Uppsala, 8 aprile 1994) è stato un astronomo svedese.

Fu allievo di Östen Bergstrand all'osservatorio di Uppsala. Dal 1928 al 1935 lavorò all'Osservatorio Bosscha in Indonesia. Dal 1948 fu assistente all'Osservatorio di Kvistaberg.

Il Minor Planet Center gli accredita la scoperta dell'asteroide 1980 Tezcatlipoca effettuata il 19 giugno 1950 in collaborazione con Albert George Wilson.[1]

Gli è stato dedicato l'asteroide 2114 Wallenquist.[2][3]

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• (EN) Breve biografia di Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist, su astro.uu.se.

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 116979366 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0000 8327 1826 · LCCN (EN) n80023072 · GND (DE) 128307560 · WorldCat Identities (EN) lccn-n80023072

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[de] Åke Wallenquist

Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist (* 16. Januar 1904 in Västervik; † 8. April 1994 in Uppsala) war ein schwedischer Astronom.

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[en] Åke Wallenquist

Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist (January 16, 1904 – April 8, 1994) was a Swedish astronomer. He worked at the Dutch Bosscha Observatory in Indonesia between 1928 and 1935, and became assistant professor at Uppsala's Kvistabergs Observatorium (Kvistaberg Observatory) in 1948. He worked originally on double stars but it was the open star clusters and their properties that became his main area of research. Wallenquist was a very active member of both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm and the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala. From the 1950s onwards, he was the leading writer of popular astronomy in Sweden among the professional astronomers. His books inspired generations of young people to become interested in astronomy.

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- [it] Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist

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