Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs | |
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| Born | (1912-08-11)11 August 1912 |
| Died | 9 March 1954(1954-03-09) (aged 41) |
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| Occupation | Astronomer |
| Known for | variable stars |
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (11 August 1912 – 9 March 1954) was a Germanastronomer.[1] She made key observations ofvariable stars.[2]
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs was born inCoburg (DuchySaxe-Coburg-Gotha). She studied inWürzburg,Munich andKiel from 1931 to 1933. After nine years of withdrawal into family life, she studied from 1942 until the end of theSecond World War at theUniversity of Göttingen. From 1945, she worked closely with professorCuno Hoffmeister as an assistant astronomer at theSonneberg Observatory. In 1951, she received a doctorate in astrophysics from theUniversity of Jena. At Sonneberg Observatory Eva Rohlfs met the astronomerPaul Oswald Ahnert and they were married in 1952.[3]
From the Sonneberg observatory she made important observations of the variable stars that he detailed in the article "On the structure and origin of the Perseid current" (German:Zur Struktur und Entstehung des Perseidenstroms) included in the Observatory Publications Sonneberg Astronomical.[4]
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs died at the age of 41 inSonneberg.[5]
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