Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was born on April 15, 1793. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Струве, romanized: Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.