Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai
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Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai (25 October 1793 – 4 June 1846) was a German astronomer.
Born in Braunschweig, Nicolai was educated at Göttingen. In 1812, he calculated the Euler–Mascheroni constant to 40 decimal places. In 1816, he joined the Mannheim observatory where he became the director.
External links
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?return_req=no_params&&author=Nicolai,+F&db_key=AST NASA ADS author query]
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Category:Scientists from Braunschweig
Category:Scientists from the Duchy of Brunswick
Nicolai, Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried
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