| Rudolph Minkowski | |
| Birth Date: | 28 May 1895 |
| Birth Place: | Strasbourg, German Empire |
| Death Place: | Berkeley, California |
| Nationality: | German |
| Field: | Astronomy |
| Work Institutions: | Palomar Observatory |
| Known For: | supernovae |
| Prizes: | Bruce Medal in 1961 |
Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski ;[1] pronounced as /de/; May 28, 1895 - January 4, 1976) was a German-American astronomer.
| + Asteroids discovered: 1  | ||
| September 14, 1951 |
He headed the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, a photographic atlas of the entire northern sky (and down to declination -22°) up to an apparent magnitude of 22.
Together with Albert George Wilson, he co-discovered the near-Earth Apollo asteroid 1620 Geographos in 1951, and he also discovered Planetary Nebula M2-9. He additionally discovered a correlation between the luminosity of early-type galaxies and their velocity dispersion,[5] which was later quantified by Faber and Jackson. He won the Bruce Medal in 1961. The lunar crater Minkowski is named after him and his uncle.Also the Minkowski 2-9, planetary nebula[6] and the Minkowski's object dwarf galaxy near NGC 541 are named after him.[7]