Otto Struve
Otto Struve (12 August 1897 – 6 April 1963) was a Russian astronomer. He was the grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and the great-grandson of Friedrich Wilhelm von Struve.
Struve's education at the University of Kharkov was interrupted by World War I and the Russian Civil War, which left him a refugee in Turkey. He went to the United States in 1921, obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and eventually became head of the astronomy department there. In 1932, he was made joint director of the university's Yerkes Observatory and McDonald Observatory (which he founded and where a telescope is named after him). Struve may be regarded as the father of modern SETI. He was one of the few eminent astronomers in the pre-Space Age era to publicly express a belief that extraterrestrial intelligence was abundant.
Otto Struve Media
- Отто Людвигович Струве Офицерское удостоверение 19 мая 1917 года.jpg
Military officer card of Struve issued on 19 May 1917
- Струве Отто Людвигович удостоверение университета.jpg
Struve's diploma of trainer at the workshop school of precision mechanics, issued on 26 June 1919.
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The 2.1 meter (82 inch) aperture Otto Struve telescope.