Otto Heckmann
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Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann (June 23 1901 – May 13 1983) was a German astronomer.
He directed the Hamburg Observatory from 1941 to 1962, after which he became the first director of the European Southern Observatory. He actively contributed to the creation of the third catalog of the Astronomische Gesellschaft. He also contributed to cosmology based on the fundamentals of general relativity, and wrote the book Theorien der Kosmologie.
He won the James Craig Watson Medal in 1961 and the Bruce Medal in 1964.
The asteroid 1650 Heckmann is named after him.
External links
- Bruce Medal page (http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Heckmann/index.html)
- Awarding of the Bruce Medal: PASP 76 (1964) 135 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0076//0000135.000.html)
Obituaries
- MitAG 60 (1983) 9 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MitAG/0060//0000009.000.html) (in German)
- QJRAS 25 (1984) 374 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0025//0000374.000.html)