astronomy

Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch

Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch rather than just read about it. In short: Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) was a German-Peruvian malacologist and entomologist. Life Weyrauch was born on December 7, 1907, in Elberfeld, Germany.

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Reference excerpt

Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) was a German-Peruvian malacologist and entomologist.

Life Weyrauch was born on December 7, 1907, in Elberfeld, Germany. He received his PhD in Zoology in 1929 from the University of Berlin with a thesis on insect neurophysiology. From 1928 to 1929, he was an assistant of Richard Hesse, and from 1931 to 1943 he worked for the German Council of Scientific Research doing field studies in entomology and ecology. In 1938, he worked as an entomologist at the agricultural experimental station (Estación Agrícola de La Molina) in Lima, Peru. At the time of World War II, he moved to Texas, where he did field work in entomology and malacology. In 1946, he was at the Estación experimental Agrícola de Tingo María in Lima. From 1948 on, he worked for the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima as a Professor of zoology and Genetics at the Museo Nacional de Historia. In addition, he was from 1959 to 1961 Professor of agricultural zoology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Lima. In 1962, he went to Argentina and became professor at the Instituto Miguel Lillo in Tucumán. He died of a heart attack in 1970.

Works Weyrauch studied land and freshwater gastropods of South America, mainly taxa belonging to the families Camaenidae, Charopidae, Clausiliidae, Endodontidae, Helicinidae, “Hydrobiidae”, Orthalicidae, Pupillidae, Scolodontidae, Subulinidae, and Urocoptidae. He left behind many type specimens in museums, of which he published no original description. Some of his collections are at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, USA, and the Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand. He was the author of 198 molluscan names.

Species named in his honor The following gastropod species were named after Weyrauch:

Bostryx weyrauchi Pilsbry, 1944 Neopetraeus weyrauchi Pilsbry, 1944 Thaumastus weyrauchi Pilsbry, 1944 Nenia weyrauchi Pilsbry, 1945 Incapora weyrauchi Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1953 Also, a species of snake is named after Weyrauch:

Leptotyphlops weyrauchi Orejas-Miranda, 1964 A species of wasp is also named after Weyrauch:

Polistes weyrauchorum Willink, 1964 Two species of harvestmen are also named after Weyrauch:

Chusgonobius weyrauchi Roewer, 1952 Andrescava weyrauchi Roewer, 1957

References

Further reading Aguilar P (1970). "Prof. Dr. Wolfgang K. Weyrauch, 1907-1970". Revista Peruana de Entomologia 13: 3-4. Breure ASH (1975). "Description of a collecting trip in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela". De Kreukel 11 (7): 83-116. Willink A (1999). "Biografias Lilloanas". Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 58 (3-4): 3-10. Zilch A (1970). "Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907-1970)". Mittheilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 2 (18): 226-236.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch

In research: Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1907 births, 1970 deaths, 20th-century German zoologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch in simple terms?

Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) was a German-Peruvian malacologist and entomologist. Life Weyrauch was born on December 7, 1907, in Elberfeld, Germany.

Why does Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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