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Ejnar Hertzsprung

Ejnar Hertzsprung (October 8, 1873 Copenhagen - October 21, 1967 Roskilde) was a Danish chemist and astronomer. He is remembered especially for the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910). He received the 1937 Bruce Medal[?].

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