Åke Wallenquist
Åke Wallenquist
Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist was a Swedish astronomer. He worked at the Dutch Bosscha Observatory in Indonesia between 1928 and 1935, and became assistant professor at Uppsala's Kvistabergs Observatorium in 1948. He worked originally on double stars but it was the open star clusters and their properties that became his main area of research. Wallenquist was a very active member of both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm and the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala. From the 1950s onwards, he was the leading writer of popular astronomy in Sweden among the professional astronomers. His books inspired generations of young people to become interested in astronomy.
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Male
Full Name
Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist
Date of Birth
January 16th, 1904
Age
120
Birth Place
Sweden, Kalmar County
Date of Death
April 8th, 1994
Died Aged
90
Star Sign
Capricorn
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