Category:Johann Franz Encke

Johann Franz Encke
	German astronomer
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Date of birth	23 September 1791; Hamburg
Date of death	26 August 1865; Berlin
Country of citizenship	Germany;
Educated at	University of Göttingen;
Doctoral advisor	Carl Friedrich Gauss;
Doctoral student	Karl Christian Bruhns (1856); Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1850); August Ephraim Kramer (1839); Leopold Kronecker (1845); Franz Woepcke (1847);
Occupation	astronomer; university teacher;
Employer	Frederick William University;
Member of	Royal Society; German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Russian Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Russian Academy of Sciences; Prussian Academy of Sciences; Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL; Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities;
Notable work	Comet Encke;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society; Order of Merit for Arts and Science; Royal Medal; Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1830); Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1853); Lalande Prize (1819);
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