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Oskar Backlund
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Oskar Backlund (1846–1916) was a Swedish and Russian astronomer and academic. Born in Länghem, he was educated at Uppsala University under Hugo Gyldén. Backlund served as a professor at Uppsala University and Pulkovo Observatory, working in Tartu and Saint Petersburg. He held the civil rank of Privy Councillor and spoke Swedish, French, German, and Russian.
He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Backlund received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Bruce Medal, the Lalande Prize, and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include studies on Encke's Comet and the movement of small planets of the Hecuba type. He died in Pulkovo.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1846
- Died
- 1916
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Vergleichung der Theorie des Encke'schen Cometen mit den Beobachtungen 1894-1895
- Über die Herleitung der im achten Bande der "Observations de Poulkova" enthaltenen Stern-Cataloge, nebst einigen Untersuchungen über den Pulkowaer Meridiankreis
- Calculs et recherches sur la comète d'Encke
- Über die Bewegung kleiner Planeten des Hecuba-typus
- La comète d'Encke, 1891-1908
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Sweden
- Active from
- 1982-05-18
Discography
- Waste Another Day2005
- Much to Cry About2005
- Merely Daydreams2006
- Death by Honey2008
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2002 · cited 2,673x
- Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease
· 2023 · cited 2,643x
- Quantentheorie und f�nfdimensionale Relativit�tstheorie
· 1926 · cited 2,492x
- Revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer's disease: Alzheimer's Association Workgroup
· 2024 · cited 2,472x
- Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state
· 2011 · cited 2,081x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Oskar
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Länghem
- Place of death
- Pulkovo
- Child
- Helge Backlund
- Occupation
- academic
- Position held
- professor
- Educated at
- Uppsala University
- Employer
- Pulkovo Observatory
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Doctoral advisor
- Hugo Gyldén
- Doctoral student
- Karl F. Sundman
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Image
- Oskar Backlund.jpg
- Work location
- Saint Petersburg
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- date of birth
- 1846-01-01
- date of death
- 1916-01-01
- described by source
- Dictionary of Swedish National Biography
- Commons category
- Oskar Backlund (astronomer)
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- civil rank
- Privy Councillor
Sources (2)
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