Gustaf Strömberg
Swedish-American astronomer and psychic theorist
Gustaf Benjamin Strömberg (16 December 1882 – 30 January 1962) was a Swedish-born American astronomer who worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. He went on to examine ideas on the non-physical world, the soul, psychic and other phenomena that would now be termed the paranormal, making him a pioneer of the study of the paranormal. Interpreting ideas from mathematical physics on waves and fields, he suggested that living cells were influenced by such invisible entities and that human memories could be immortal, as also claiming a mathematical support for the existence of a soul.
Life and work
Strömberg was born in Gothenburg to Johanna Elisabeth née Noehrman and Bengt Johan Gustaf Lorentz Strömberg. He studied at the University of Lund, obtaining a PhD in 1916. He then moved to the Carnegie Institution and worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1922. His astronomy work had largely been on the studies of star velocities. His work included studies on the luminosity of the long-period variable stars and his work on the “asymmetry of stellar motions” making use of the Lindblad–Oort theory of galactic rotation suggested globular clusters with some stars effectively moving towards us. He then used this to estimate radial velocities.
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