
German astronomer and mathematician
Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician who made important contributions to our understanding of the stars and celestial mechanics. His work laid foundational knowledge that advanced astronomy as a scientific discipline.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ( German: [ˈbɛsl̩]; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun to another star by the method of parallax. Certain important mathematical functions were first studied systematically by Bessel and were named Bessel functions in his honour.
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