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Johann Jacob Baeyer (born 5 November 1794 in Berlin, died 10 September 1885 in Berlin) was a German geodesist and a lieutenant-general in the Royal Prussian Army. He was the first director of the Royal Prussian Geodetic Institute and is regarded as the founder of the International Association of Geodesy.
Jan 1, 2015 · In 1861, the retired Prussian General Johann Jacob Baeyer took up earlier ideas from Schumacher, Gauss, Bessel, Struve and others, and proposed an arc measurement project for central Europe in order to systematically study the figure of the Earth in this region.
The Prussian General Johann Jacob Baeyer (1794–1885) initiated the international arc measurement to observe the irregular figure of the Earth given by an equipotential surface of the gravity field.
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf fɔn ˈbaɪɐ] ⓘ; 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).
Dec 16, 2013 · In 1862, the Prussian General Johann Jacob Baeyer initiated the Central European Arc Measurement (Mitteleuropäische Gradmessung) project. By the end of that year 15 countries had affirmed their participation, and in 1864 the first General Conference was held in Berlin.
Johann Jacob Baeyer (* 5. November 1794 in Müggelheim; † 10. September 1885 in Berlin) war ein preußischer Offizier, zuletzt Generalleutnant, sowie als Geodät der Begründer der europäischen Gradmessung. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 2 Baeyer und die Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin. 3 Ehrungen. 4 Wichtige Schriften. 5 Verwandte Themen.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905 was awarded to Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer "in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"
