Paul ten Bruggencate
| Paul ten Bruggencate | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 24, 1901 Arosa, Switzerland |
| Died | September 14, 1961 (aged 60) |
| Alma mater | University of Munich |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Göttingen University Observatory 1941–1961 |
| Doctoral advisor | Hugo von Seeliger |
Paul ten Bruggencate (February 24, 1901 – September 14, 1961) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist.
Ten Bruggencate was born in Arosa, Switzerland and went to several schools in Switzerland, in the Netherlands and in Germany. He further studied at the University of Munich and started his PhD work with Hugo von Seeliger. However, due to health problems, Seeliger had to handover the supervision of his PhD students to Hans Kienle.
Ten Bruggencate graduated from the University of Munich and in 1924, together with Hans Kienle, moved to the Göttingen University Observatory. Ten Bruggencate stayed as an assistant at the Göttingen University until 1926, when he traveled to Java. He worked there with the Dutch astronomer Joan Voûte at the Bosscha Observatory near Lembang and started a survey of Cepheid variable stars. After two years at the Bosscha Observatory, he visited the Mt. Wilson Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory In the United States. In 1929 he moved to the University of Greifswald in northern Germany, where he finished his habilitation on Cepheid variable stars in 1935. Most of this work was based on the observations carried out in Lembang.
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