Emil Bessels (2 June 1847 – 30 March 1888) was a German zoologist, entomologist, physician, and Arctic researcher who is best known for his controversial...

Sir Walter William Herbert (24 October 1934 – 12 June 2007) was a British polar explorer, writer and artist. In 1969 he became the first man fully recognized...

interstellar distances were undertaken by German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel in 1838, who used this approach to calculate the 3.5-parsec distance of...

The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (German: Dr. Bessels Verwandlung ) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Jakob Tiedtke...

series of functions related to Bessel functions of half integral order. He created tables of what he called the Riccati-Bessel functions of the sines and...

operators of the Mark I often called the machine "Bessy, the Bessel engine", after Bessel functions. The Mark I was disassembled in 1959; part of it was...

Herbert Schröder-Stranz (9 June 1884 – 15 August 1912) was a German officer and explorer of polar regions. He led the German Arctic Expedition of 1912...

the Earth ellipsoid was assumed to be ⁠1/334⁠. In 1841, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel using the method of least squares calculated from several arc measurements...

Charles Herbert Workman (5 May 1872 – 1 May 1923) was a singer and actor best known as a successor to George Grossmith in the comic baritone roles in...

Wichmann (1821–1859) was an ardent observer of minor planets. A student of Bessel, he observed with the famous Königsberg heliometer. In 1853 he published...