Rudolph Minkowski

Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski ; ; May 28, 1895 – January 4, 1976) was a German-American astronomer. His uncle was Hermann Minkowski, a mathematician and one of Einstein's teachers in Zürich. Rudolph studied supernovae and, together with Walter Baade, divided them into two classes (Type I and Type II) based on their spectral characteristics. He and Baade also found optical counterparts to various radio sources.

He headed the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, a photographic atlas of the entire northern sky (and south to declination -22°) down to an apparent magnitude of 22. which was later quantified by Faber and Jackson. He won the Bruce Medal in 1961. List of discovered astronomical objects Name data-sort-type="number"|Discovery Year data-sort-type="number"|Type Ref. 1620 Geographos 1951 Asteroid