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Jan 30, 1908 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Died on 27 Aug 1981 (aged 73)
American astronomer
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About Paul Herget
- Paul Herget (January 30, 1908 – August 27, 1981) was an American astronomer.Herget taught astronomy at the University of Cincinnati.
- He was a pioneer in the use of machine methods, and eventually digital computers, in the solving of scientific and specifically astronomical problems (for example, in the calculation of ephemeris tables for minor planets).
- The asteroid 1751 Herget is named in his honour, while 1755 Lorbach was named for his wife.During World War II he applied these same talents to the war effort, helping to locate U-boats by means of the application of spherical trigonometry. Herget established the Minor Planet Center at the university after the war in 1947.
- He was also named director of the Cincinnati Observatory.
- The Minor Planet Center was eventually relocated in 1978 to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it still operates.
