Carl Charlier

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Carl Vilhelm Ludwig Charlier (April 1 1862 – November 5 1934) was a Swedish astronomer.

He received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1887, later worked there and at the Stockholm Observatory and was Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Lund University from 1897.

He translated Isaac Newton's Principia into Swedish.

He made extensive statistical studies of the stars in our galaxy and their positions and motions, and tried to develop a model of the galaxy based on this.

Honors

Awards

James Craig Watson Medal (1924)
Bruce Medal (1933)

Named after him

Charlier crater on the Moon
Crater on Mars
Asteroid 8677 Charlier

External links

[Bruce Medal page]
[Awarding of Bruce Medal: PASP 45 (1933) 5]
[Gustav Holmberg: Astronomy in Sweden 1860-1940]

Obituaries

[MNRAS 95 (1935) 339]

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