About Bengt Strömgren
Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist. His father paced and promoted Bengt into a life with science, and Bengt's first paper was published already at the age of 14. Just before the war, he discovered the so-called Strömgren Spheres — huge interstellar shells of ionized hydrogen around stars. But after the Second World War, Bengt Strömgren became tired of lacking state funding for the project, and with a stagnant national economy, he felt that he had to leave Danish research, which he did in 1951.
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