Wilhelm Bessel determined the positions and proper motions of stars. He also used a method of mathematical analysis involving what is now known as the Bessel function. He was born in Minden, Westphalia, on 22 July 1784 and died in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), on 17 March 1846. The Bessel functions carry his name, and he studied them systematically in 1824, and Bessel's correction, the statistical technique, is also named after him.
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Born 22 July 1784 Minden, Westphalia (now Germany)
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Wilhelm Bessel determined the positions and proper motions of stars. He also used a method of mathematical analysis involving what is now known as the Bessel function.
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They are named after the German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Bessel, who studied them systematically in 1824
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This technique is named after Friedrich Bessel.
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