Background
Strömgren was born in 1870 in Helsingborg, Scania.
Astronomer university professor
Strömgren was born in 1870 in Helsingborg, Scania.
Lund University.
He received his doctorate at Lund University in 1898, becoming docent there the same year. He worked at the University of Kiel from 1901, and assisted in the publication of Astronomische Nachrichten from 1901 to 1904. He became Professor of Astronomy and director of the Copenhagen Observatory of the University of Copenhagen in 1907.
He died in Copenhagen in 1947.
The minor planet 1422 Strömgrenia was named in his honour. Strömgren worked in a variety of fields but was particularly interested in theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics, publishing works on the origin and orbits of comets.
He also worked on the calculations for Jens Olsen"s World Clock after 1928. Elis Strömgren"s son was the astronomer Bengt Strömgren, who succeeded his father in Copenhagen in 1940.
Prussian Academy of Sciences. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.