Ernst Zinner

Ernst Zinner , astronomer and German historian of astronomy (1886 - 1970), professor of astronomy to the University of Munich.

The October 23rd 1913, it has redécouvert the comet that Michel Giacobini had discovered in 1900. Since it is called the comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner.

A lunar crater 4 km in diameter was called Zinner.

Works

  • Geschichte und Bibliography DER astronomischen Literatur in Deutschland zur Zeit DER Rebirth ; 2nd ED. Stuttgart, A. Hiersemann, 1964. 480 S. ISBN 3-7772-6407-5.

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