Thaddeus Vincenty
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Thaddeus Vincenty
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Thaddeus Vincenty was a Polish American geodesist who worked with the U.S. Air Force and later the National Geodetic Survey to adapt three-dimensional adjustment techniques to NAD 83.
He devised Vincenty's formulae, a geodesic calculation technique published in 1975 which is accurate to about half a millimeter. Vincenty's studies were interrupted by World War II, and he eventually arrived in a displaced persons camp. He arrived in the United States in 1947, and took his father's first name as hi
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Polish-American geodesist (1920 - 2002)
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2024-03-11T11:04:05Z
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