Bengt Strömgren

Bengt Strömgren (born Jan. 21, 1908, Gothenburg, Swed.—died July 4, 1987, Copenhagen, Den.) was a Danish astrophysicist who pioneered the present-day knowledge of the gas clouds in space. Son of the noted Swedish-born Danish astronomer Svante Elis Strömgren, he early developed an interest in astronomy. He collaborated with his father on several works of astronomy and in 1940 succeeded him as director of the Royal Copenhagen Observatory. Strömgren served as an assistant and then associate...