Anders Angerstein in the family until the 19th century. Anders Angerstein is noted for improvements for charcoal piles during his tenure. In 1981, the former Angerstein steelworks of which he laid the foundation were transformed into the "Steelworks Museum of Vikmanshyttan", maintained as a museum of regional industrial history. Anders Angerstein Anders Angerstein (1614-1659), also called "Andrae Angerstein", was a German-Swedish ironmaster. Anders Angerstein is said to have been born in , Niedersachsen, Holy Roman Empire, with evidence indicating ultimate family origins in Hungary. He immigrated to Sweden along with accompanying miners, first in service of other equally immigrated ironmasters but with
Thomas Henderson (astronomer) Thomas Henderson (astronomer) Thomas Henderson FRSE FRS FRAS (28 December 1798 – 23 November 1844) was a Scottish astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star, and for being the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Born in Dundee, he was educated at the High School of Dundee, after which he trained as a lawyer, working his way up through the profession as an assistant to a variety of nobles. However, his major