Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai


Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai was a German astronomer.
Born in Braunschweig, Nicolai was educated at Göttingen. In 1812, he calculated the Euler–Mascheroni constant to 40 decimal places. In 1816, he joined the Mannheim observatory where he became the director.
The crater Nicolai on the Moon is named after him.