Per_Collinder

Per Collinder

Per Collinder

Swedish astronomer

Per Collinder (22 May 1890 – 6 December 1975) was a Swedish astronomer.

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Born at Sundsvall, he is known for a catalog of open clusters that he published in 1931, which is today known as the Collinder catalogue. He has written the books History of navigation and Worlds in Orbit.

He was married twice, and his first wife gave him four children.[1] Collinder died at Uppsala.

Notes and references

  1. [1]
    Jan Eurenius Database on RootsWeb


Stub icon

This article about a Swedish scientist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This European astronomer–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Per_Collinder, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.