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Wilhelm Anderson
Wilhelm Anderson in Tartu, c. 1930
Born
Wilhelm Robert Karl Anderson

28 October [O.S. 16 October] 1880
Minsk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedMarch 26, 1940(1940-03-26) (aged 59)
Meseritz-Obrawalde, Gau Mark Brandenburg, Deutsches Reich (present-day Międzyrzecz, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland)
NationalityRussian, Estonian, German
Alma mater
  • University of Kazan
  • University of Tartu
Known for
  • Work on the white dwarf mass limit
  • Stoner-Anderson equation
Scientific career
Fields
  • Astrophysics
  • Astronomy
Institutions
  • University of Tartu
Thesis Die physikalische Natur der Sonnenkorona

Wilhelm Robert Karl Anderson (28 October [O.S. 16 October] 1880 – 26 March 1940) was a Russian-Estonian astrophysicist of Baltic German descent who studied the physical structure of the stars.

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