Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
Born(1758-10-11)11 October 1758
Died2 March 1840(1840-03-02) (aged 81)
NationalityGerman
Known forOlbers' paradox
Pallas
Vesta
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
Astronomy
Olbers monument in Bremen by Carl Johann Steinhäuser (1850)

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (/ˈɔːlbərz/; German: [ˈɔlbɐs]; 11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German astronomer. He found a convenient method of calculating the orbit of comets, and in 1802 and 1807, discovered the second and the fourth asteroids Pallas and Vesta.