List of Famous people with last name Bessel

Ehmi Bessel

First Name Ehmi

Born on October 11, 1904

Died on February 3, 1988 (aged 83)

Born in Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate

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Friedrich Bessel

First Name Friedrich

Last Name Bessel

Died on March 17, 1846

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 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. A special type of mathematical functions were named Bessel functions after Bessel's death, though they had originally been discovered by Daniel Bernoulli and then generalised by Bessel.

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Mitchell Bessel

First Name Mitchell

Last Name Bessel

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