Oswald Thomas (July 27, 1882 - Feb. 7, 1963)
Oswald Thomas was born in Kronstadt (now Brasov, Romania) on July 27, 1882.
He was professional astronomer and Director of the Urania observatory in
Vienna 1915-1922, set up the Vienna Astronomical Bureau in 1923 and the
Planetarium in the Vienna Prater area in 1927.
He died in Bonn, Germany on Feb. 7, 1963.
In his 1934 book, Astronomie, he identified the
missing Messier object
M47 with NGC 2422, an identification which is
now generally recognized, after T.F. Morris of RASC
found its reason in a data reduction error by Messier.
brief data on Oswald Thomas from Project AEIOU
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