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Armin O. Leuschner

AKA Armin Otto Leuschner

Born: 16-Jan-1868
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Died: 22-Apr-1953
Location of death: Berkeley, CA
Cause of death: Stroke

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Astronomer

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Astronomer at Berkeley

Military service: US Army (Chemical Warfare Service, 1918-20)

Astronomer Armin O. Leuschner was born in Detroit, but while still a toddler he moved to Germany with his mother, following his father's death. As a man he returned to America and studied under James Craig Watson, and became the first graduate student at Lick Observatory. For his PhD at the University of Berlin, he was discouraged from writing about orbit theory, as his advisors felt there was little left to learn on the topic. He later devised a simplification of differential corrections, improved the methodology for determining the courses of planetoids and comets, and oversaw a survey of all the known minor planets. He founded the Astronomy Department at Berkeley, and for forty years served as director of the student observatory there, which was renamed in his honor days after his death.

Father: Richard Otto Leuschner
Mother: Caroline Humburg Leuschner
Wife: Ida Louise Denicke Leuschner (m. 1896, d. 1941)
Daughter: Erida Leuschner Reichart (physician)
Son: Richard Denicke Leuschner (chemist)

    High School: Royal Wilhelms Gymnasium, Kassel, Germany (1886)
    University: BS Mathematics, University of Michigan (1888)
    University: Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz (188-90)
    Teacher: Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley (1890-94)
    Teacher: Astronomy & Geodesy, University of California at Berkeley (1894-96)
    University: PhD Astronomy, University of Berlin (1897)
    Teacher: Astronomy & Geodesy, University of California at Berkeley (1898-1907)
    Administrator: Director of Leuschner Observatory, University of California at Berkeley (1898-1938)
    Professor: Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley (1907-38)
    Administrator: Dean of Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley (1913-18, 1920-23)

    James Craig Watson Medal 1916
    Bruce Medal 1936
    American Astronomical Society
    International Astronomical Union
    National Academy of Sciences
    National Research Council
    Royal Astronomical Society 1927
    Asteroid Namesake 1361 Leuschneria
    Lunar Crater Leuschner
    German Ancestry


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