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Edvard Jäderin, born the 5th of March 1852 in Stockholm, died there on the 24th of November 1923, was a Swedish geodesist; brother of Axel Jäderin and Anna Branting.

Career
Jäderin gained his Bachelor of Arts from Uppsala in 1875, and was an assistant at Stockholm observatory 1870-71, at Uppsala observatory's (meteorology section) 1874 as well as assistant astronomer at Stockholm observatory 1876-78. In 1878 he became a lecturer in geodesy and topography at the Royal Institute of Technology (RIT) in Stockholm and was 1911-17 professor of geodesy at the RIT, where he introduced "numerical and graphical methods" as a new subject and completed a comprehensive educational framework.

Jäderin constructed a survey measuring wire and instructed officers and geodesists in Finland,Russia and France on its use. He was head of the preparatory trip (1898) to Svalbard prior to the Swedish-Russian Arc-of-Meridian Expedition 1899-1902 and then took an important roll in the longitudinal measurements on Spitsbergen, partly as head of the Swedish section.

Jäderin became chair of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences in 1900 and of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1923. He received an honourary doctorate of philosophy from Uppsala University in 1907. From 1881 he presented a large number of popular discussions on the subject ofnatural sciences in many large Swedish towns. During 1881-82 and again in 1890 he was director of Stockholm's Workers Institute and wrote a large number of articles for Nordisk familjebok, a Swedish Encyclopedia. Finally, he was also a leading authority in the insurance industry.

Selected Bibliography

 * En metod för geodetisk basmätning med stålband (1879, i "Öfversigt af Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar"; en beskrivning på den fullkomnade metoden är införd i Franska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar, 1897)
 * Stjernverlden (1888, tillsammans med Carl Charlier)
 * Komparationer emellan Sveriges meterprototyp och tre statens institutioner tillhöriga hufvudlikare och normalmått (1895, i "Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar")
 * Förnyade komparationer etc. (1908; ibid.)
 * Solförmörkelsen den 21 augusti 1914. Företeelsens förlopp i Stockholm (1914)
 * Tabeller för interpolation och utjämning (1915; German edition came out the same year)