Hertzsprung

/ hɛrdsbrɔŋ /

noun

1. HertzsprungEjnar18731967MDanishSCIENCE: astronomer Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

Hertzsprung

/ hĕrts′sprng /

1. Danish astronomer who specialized in photographing the stars and introduced the concept of absolute magnitude . Hertzsprung also demonstrated the relationship between the surface temperature of stars and their absolute magnitude, but his work was ignored until Henry Russell independently developed a similar correlation, which is now named after both of them.

Example Sentences

With a terminology proposed by Hertzsprung the former group is said to consist of giant stars, the latter group of dwarf stars.

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