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Hirsch, Adolphe

Halberstadt, Germany
21.05.1830

Neuchâtel, Switzerland
16.04.1901

Degrees:
Career: Studies of astronomy at Heidelberg, Berlin (under Encke) and Vienna; work at the observatories in Vienna and Paris; nomination to the direction of the cantonal observatory at Neuchâtel destined to facilitate the production of high precision clockworks; from 1859 onward director of the observatory at Neuchâtel; 1866 chair of astronomy and geophysics at the Academy of Neuchâtel; 1862 participation in the foundation of the Commission géodésique suisse of which he was also secretary; 1866 together with C. Bruhns secretary of the Sitzung der "Internationalen Erdmessung" (formerly "Mitteleuropäische Gradmessung") in Neuchâtel, 1886-1900 its permanent secretary; 1875 Convention internationale de mètre in Paris where he was nominated permanent secretary of the international committee.
Selected works: Hirsch, Adolph. 1865. Chronoskopische Versuche über die Geschwindigkeit der verschiedenen Sinneseindrücke und der Nerven-Leitung. Untersuchungen zur Naturlehre des Menschen und der Thiere 9: 183-199
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Sources: Legrandroy, E. 1901. Séance du 27 juin 1901: Adolphe Hirsch. Société Neuchateloise des Sciences Naturelles, Bulletin 29: 3-35
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