Per Collinder Explained

Per Collinder
Birth Date:22 May 1890
Birth Place:Sundsvall, Sweden
Death Date:6 December 1975 (age 85)
Death Place:Uppsala, Sweden
Nationality:Swedish
Occupation:astronomer

Per Collinder (22 May 1890 – 6 December 1975) was a Swedish astronomer.

Born at Sundsvall, he is known for a catalog of open clusters that he published in 1931, which is today known as the Collinder catalogue. He has written the books History of navigation and Worlds in Orbit.

He was married twice, and his first wife gave him four children.[1] Collinder died at Uppsala.

Notes and References

  1. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=janeur&id=I188989 Jan Eurenius Database on RootsWeb