• Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski /mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; May 28, 1895 – January 4, 1976) was a German-American...
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    Hermann Minkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski. Born in Aleksotas, of Jewish origin, but later converted to Christianity. Minkowski was...
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  • Minkowski (1858–1931), German physician Peter Minkowski (born 1941), Swiss physicist Pinhas Minkowsky (1859–1924), Russian hazzan Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976)...
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    Hermann Minkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/ ming-KAWF-skee, -⁠KOF-; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor...
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    M2-9 (redirect from Minkowski 2-9)
    just Butterfly Nebula) is a planetary nebula that was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. It is located about 2,100 light-years away from Earth in...
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  • Edwin Hubble, Milton L. Humason, Walter Baade, Ira Sprague Bowen and Rudolph Minkowski. The first photographic plate was exposed on November 11, 1949. 99%...
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    Minkowski 2-42, abbreviated M2-42, is a planetary nebula that was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. It is located about 30,800 light-years away...
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    spectral classification of these distant supernovae was performed by Rudolph Minkowski in 1941. He categorized them into two types, based on whether or not...
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    are confined to a giant supercluster disk. 1954 — Walter Baade and Rudolph Minkowski identify the extragalactic optical counterpart of the radio source...
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    longer used and the modern name was in use. American astronomers Rudolph Minkowski and Fritz Zwicky developed the modern supernova classification scheme...
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