Ejnar Hertzsprung

Insurance agent turned chemist turned astronomer.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Being self taught in astronomy, I have run in to hitches along the way trying to understand certain concepts. Later on I figured things out.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Did you know:
My father made a living as an insurance executive.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Did you know:
I gave up chemistry to accept Karl Schwarzschild's offer to lecture in astronomy at Göttingen.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Did you know:
My H-R diagram has been a cornerstone of modern astrophysics since 1913.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Did you know:
I published several papers on the evolution of open star-clusters.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Did you know:
I spent 9 years as a director at the Leiden Observatory.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Did you know:
I briefly worked in Wilhelm Ostwald's laboratory.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Did you know:
@GGalileo9 did not invent the telescope. It was Johannes Lippershey. #justsaying

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

I relaxed a little too much during a weekend in October 1967 and died. #bestsleepever #wellrested

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Yeah, I'm a self-taught astronomer.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Did you know:
I was among the last self-taught astronomers to oversee a major observatory.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

My father inspired me to become an astronomer...So I became an insurance agent.
P.s: I eventually became an astronomer.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Chokers have gotten out of hand @JohannesK2nd

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

I don't always make mistakes, but when I do...it's usually off by a factor of 10. #slipofthepen

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

"In my opinion, the separation of the c and the ac stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification." -me obviously

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Creating the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram with Henry Russell was #lit #staylitmyfriends

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Fun fact #1
I'm as funny as a wet piece of bread. #true

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Ah, the good ol days of being a professor. https://t.co/jJT0QjbdbS

[Gerard Peter Kuiper @GPKuiper]

@EHertzsprung good ol Leiden University am I right

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Apparently Twitter assumes you are dead if you were born prior to 1897. Seems I was born 24 years too early.

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

@GPKuiper ? Taught him everything he knows.