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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Biography

Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1810

Dissertation:

Advisor: Carl Friedrich Gauß

Student(s):
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Heinrich Scherk	Universität Berlin	1823	18504

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