Fellow of the Royal Society[1] Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1957) Henry Draper Medal (1949) Bruce Medal (1948) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1944)
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy
Otto Lyudvigovich Struve (Russian: Отто Людвигович Струве; 12 August 1897 – 6 April 1963[2]) was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin. Otto was the descendant of famous astronomers of the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and great-grandson of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. He was also the nephew of Karl Hermann Struve.[1][3][4]
With more than 900 journal articles and books, Struve was one of the most distinguished and prolific astronomers of the mid-20th century. He served as director of Yerkes, McDonald, Leuschner and National Radio Astronomy Observatories and is credited with raising worldwide prestige and building schools of talented scientists at Yerkes and McDonald observatories. In particular, he hired Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Gerhard Herzberg who later became Nobel Prize winners. Struve's research was mostly focused on binary and variable stars, stellar rotation and interstellar matter. He was one of the few eminent astronomers in the pre-Space Age era to publicly express a belief that extraterrestrial intelligence was abundant, and so was an early advocate of the search for extraterrestrial life.
^ abCowling, T. G. (1964). "Otto Struve 1897-1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 10: 282–304. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1964.0017. S2CID 59106318.
^"Obituary Notes of Astronomers".
^National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (1991). Biographical memoirs, Volume 60. National Academies Press. ISBN 0-309-04746-3.
^Donald E. Osterbrock (1997). Yerkes Observatory, 1892–1950: the birth, near death, and resurrection of a scientific research institution. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-63946-0.
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