Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor. Wikipedia
Born: April 15, 1793, Altona, Hamburg, Germany
Died: November 23, 1864 (age 71 years), Saint Petersburg, Russia
Children: Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve, Karl von Struve, and more
Education: University of Tartu
Books: Measures Of The Double Stars Contained In The Mensurae Micrometricae Of F. G. W. Struve: Collected And Discussed With An Introduction Containing General Deductions, A List Of Proper Motions Of Fifty Faint Stars And Various Other Information In, Additamentum in F. G. W. S. Mensuras micrometricas stellarum duplicium editas anno 1837, exhibens mensuras Dorpati annis 1837 et 1838 institutas. Adjecta est disquisitio de parallaxi annua stellae a Lyrae, Librorum in bibliotheca Speculae pulcovensis contentorum catalogus systematicus: Ex opere descriptionis Speculae seorsim excudi curavit, and more
Awards: Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1826) and Royal Medal (1827)
Grandchildren: Ludwig von Struve, Hermann von Struve, Emmy Lindhagen, and more