Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt
German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt (4 August 1807 – 15 February 1851)[1][2][3] was a German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist of Jewish descent[4] who was a professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen.[1] He is also known as Benjamin Goldschmidt,[2] C. W. B. Goldschmidt,[5][6] Carl Goldschmidt, and Karl Goldschmidt.[3]
Goldschmidt, who suffered from an enlargement of the heart, died in his sleep and was found on the morning of 15 February 1851.[1][2]