Hermann Carl Vogel
- Hermann Carl Vogel
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name = Hermann Carl Vogel
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birth_date =April 3 1841
birth_place =Leipzig ,Kingdom of Saxony
death_date =August 13 1907
death_place =Potsdam ,German Empire
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field =Astronomy
work_institutions =Potsdam Observatory
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known_for = Astronomical spectroscopy
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Hermann Carl Vogel (April 3 1841 –August 13 1907 ) was a Germanastronomer . He was born inLeipzig ,Kingdom of Saxony .Vogel pioneered the use of the
spectroscope in astronomy. He applied this instrument to chemically analyze planetary atmospheres and to determine the Sun's rotational period using the Doppler effect.In 1882, Vogel became the Director at the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam. and he is best known for a discovery he made there in 1890. Vogel found that the spectra of certain stars shifted slightly over time, moving toward the red and then later toward the blue. His interpretation of this result was that the star was moving toward and then away from the Earth, and that the accompanying spectral shifts were the result of the Doppler effect. These stars appeared to be orbiting around a hidden center of mass, and thus they were double-star systems. However, in each case the companion star could not be resolved using a
telescope , and so these double-star systems were designatedspectroscopic binaries .By obtaining periodic Doppler shifts in the components of
Algol , Vogel proved that the latter was abinary star ; thus, Algol was one of the first known spectroscopic binaries (and it is also known to be aneclipsing binary ).Honors
Awards
*Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1893)
*Henry Draper Medal (1893)
*Landskroener Medal of Achievement (1898)
*Richard C. White Purple Honors Medal (1899)
*Bruce Medal (1906)Named after him
* Vogel crater on the
Moon
* Crater on MarsFurther reading
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External links
* [http://phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Vogel Short biography]
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