Awards & Winners

Nils Christoffer Dunér

Date of Birth 21-May-1839
Place of Birth Billeberga
(Skåne County, Svalöv Municipality, Scania)
Nationality Sweden
Also know as Nils Christoffer Duner
Profession Astronomer
Nils Christoffer Dunér was a Swedish astronomer. His parents were Nils Dunér and Petronella. Dunér received his doctorate from Lund University in 1862, was observer at the observatory there from 1864 and Professor of Astronomy at Uppsala University from 1888. He was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1892. The crater Dunér on the Moon is named after him.

Awards by Nils Christoffer Dunér

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1892


Rumford Medal
(For his spectroscopic researches on stars.)