Einstein Tower

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Name (Latin)
Einstein Tower
Other forms of name
Einsteinturm
Coordinates
13.06361111 13.06361111 52.37888889 52.37888889 (gooearth )
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 128014082
Wikidata: Q321789
Library of congress: n 97045769
HAI10: 000420525
Sources of Information
  • Vom grossen Refraktor zum Einsteinturm, 1996:t.p. (Einstein Tower) p. 5 (Solar research facility which included Europe's first tower telescope and a spectrographs)
  • Mendelsohn, der Einsteinturm, 2000:t.p. (Einsteinturm) p. 7 (located on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam)
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Wikipedia description:

The Einstein Tower (German: Einsteinturm) is an astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam, Germany. The Tower was built by architect Erich Mendelsohn in 1924. It was built on the summit of the Potsdam Telegraphenberg to house a solar telescope designed by the astronomer Erwin Finlay-Freundlich. The telescope supports experiments and observations to validate (or disprove) Albert Einstein's relativity theory. Although Einstein never worked there, he supported the construction and operation of the telescope. Einstein Tower is a working solar observatory today as part of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam.

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