Thomas Clausen
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Danish mathematician and astronomer
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Thomas Clausen 's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Copenhagen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Clausen was a Danish mathematician and astronomer. Clausen learned mathematics at home. In 1820, he became a trainee at the Munich Optical Institute and in 1824, at the Altona Observatory after he showed Heinrich Christian Schumacher his paper on calculating longitude by the occultation of stars by the moon. He eventually returned to Munich, where he conceived and published his best known works on mathematics. In 1842 Clausen was hired by the staff of the Tartu Observatory, becoming its director in 1866-1872.
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