William Stephen Finsen’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African astronomer
Was Astronomer 
From South Africa 
Type Science 
Gender male
Birth 28 July 1905
Death 16 May 1979
(aged 73 years)

William Stephen Finsen (28 July 1905 – 16 May 1979) was a South African astronomer.
He discovered a number of double stars and took many photographs of Mars. He developed the Finsen eyepiece interferometer to measure very close double stars. He was the final director of Union Observatory in South Africa from 1957 until it closed in 1965 (it was renamed Republic Observatory in 1961); he had started there 55 years previous.
The asteroid 1794 Finsen is named after him, as is the geological feature Finsen Dorsum on the asteroid 433 Eros.

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