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Adriaan Blaauw Dec. at 96 (1914-2010) Adriaan Blaauw was a Dutch astronomer. Blaauw was born in Amsterdam to Cornelis Blaauw and Gesina Clasina Zwart, and studied at Leiden University and the University of Groningen, obtaining his ...more

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Adriaan van Maanen Dec. at 62 (1884-1946) Adriaan van Maanen was a Dutch–American astronomer. Van Maanen, born into a well-to-do family in Friesland by incest, studied astronomy at the University of Utrecht and worked briefly at the ...more

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Albertus Antonie Nijland Dec. at 68 (1868-1936) Albertus Antonie Nijland was a Dutch astronomer. He was professor of astronomy at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, and served as director of the Sterrewacht Sonnenborgh of the university. In 1901 ...more

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Antonie Pannekoek Dec. at 87 (1873-1960) Antonie Pannekoek was a Dutch astronomer, Marxist theorist, and social revolutionary. He was one of the main theorists of council communism.

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Arjen Roelofs Dec. at 74 (1754-1828) Arjen Roelofs was a Dutch astronomer.

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Bart Bok Dec. at 77 (1906-1983) Bartholomeus Jan "Bart" Bok was a Dutch-born American astronomer, teacher, and lecturer. He is best known for his work on the structure and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy, and for ...more

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Christiaan Huygens Dec. at 66 (1629-1695) Christiaan Huygens, FRS was a prominent Dutch mathematician and scientist. He is known particularly as an astronomer, physicist, probabilist and horologist. Huygens was a leading scientist of ...more

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Cornelis Johannes van Houten Dec. at 82 (1920-2002) Cornelis Johannes van Houten was a Dutch astronomer, sometimes referred to as Kees van Houten. Born in The Hague, he spent his entire career at Leiden University except for a brief period as ...more

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Dirk Brouwer Dec. at 64 (1902-1966) Dirk Brouwer was a Dutch-American astronomer. He received his Ph.D. in 1927 at Leiden University under Willem de Sitter and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of ...more

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Egbert Adriaan Kreiken Dec. at 68 (1896-1964) Egbert Adriaan Kreiken was a Dutch teacher and astronomer. He was born at Barneveld in the Netherlands, to a family of teachers. After being awarded his Ph.D. in 1923, he would become a ...more

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Eise Eisinga Dec. at 84 (1744-1828) Eise Jeltes Eisinga was a Dutch amateur astronomer who built the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Netherlands. The orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning planetarium ...more

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Ewine van Dishoeck age 62 Ewine van Dishoeck is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory. She is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the U.S. ...more

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Frank Pieter Israel age 72 Frank Pieter Israel is a Dutch astronomer. He received his Ph.D. in astronomy at the Leiden Observatory in 1976, where he now is Professor. The asteroid 7507 Israel is named for him. Israel is ...more

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Frederik Kaiser Dec. at 64 (1808-1872) Frederik Kaiser was a Dutch astronomer. He was director of the Leiden Observatory from 1838 until his death. He is credited with the advancement of Dutch astronomy through his scientific ...more

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Gale Bruno van Albada Dec. at 60 (1912-1972) Gale Bruno van Albada was a Dutch astronomer. Van Albada obtained his Ph.D. with Antonie Pannekoek at the University of Amsterdam in 1945. He shared Pannekoek's communist ideologies and back in ...more

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Gerard P. Kuiper Dec. at 68 (1905-1973) Gerard Peter Kuiper was a Netherlands-born American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science.

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H. G. van de Sande Bakhuyzen Dec. at 85 (1838-1923) Hendricus Gerardus van de Sande Bakhuyzen was a Dutch astronomer. His surname, van de Sande Bakhuyzen, is sometimes erroneously given as Backhuyzen or Bakhuysen. His first name is sometimes ...more

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Hendrik C. van de Hulst Dec. at 82 (1918-2000) Hendrik Christoffel "Henk" van de Hulst ForMemRS was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician. In 1944, while a student in Utrecht, he predicted the existence of the 21 cm hyperfine line ...more

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Hendrik van Gent Dec. at 47 (1900-1947) Hendrik van Gent was a Dutch astronomer. He moved to South Africa in 1928 in order to observe the southern sky at the Leiden Southern Station and the Union Observatory in Johannesburg. He ...more

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Herman Zanstra Dec. at 78 (1894-1972) Herman Zanstra was a Frisian/Dutch astronomer. Zanstra was born near Heerenveen in Friesland. In 1917 he graduated with an Engineer's degree in chemical engineering from the Delft Institute of ...more

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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld age 97 Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld was a Dutch astronomer. In a jointly-credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she was the discoverer of many thousands of ...more

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Jacobus Kapteyn Dec. at 71 (1851-1922) Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation. Kapteyn was born in ...more

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Jan Oort Dec. at 92 (1900-1992) Jan Hendrik Oort ForMemRS was a Dutch astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Milky Way and who was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. His New York ...more

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Jan Woltjer Dec. at 55 (1891-1946) Jan Woltjer was a Dutch astronomer. Woltjer was the son of the classical scholar Jan Woltjer. On 13 December 1916 he married Hillegonda de Vries in Groningen. He worked and taught at Leiden ...more

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Jean Jacques Raimond, Jr. Dec. at 58 (1903-1961) Dr. Jean Jacques Raimond, Jr. was a Dutch astronomer. Raimond was the son of Jean Jacques Raimond Sr., furniture maker in The Hague, and Tetje van der Werf. He studied astronomy at the ...more

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Johan Maurits Mohr Dec. at 59 (1716-1775) Johan Maurits Mohr was a Dutch-German pastor who studied at Groningen University from 1733 and settled in Batavia in 1737. Mohr's greatest passion was in astronomy but he was also keenly ...more

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Johan Stein Dec. at 80 (1871-1951) Johan Willem Jakob Antoon Stein was a Dutch astronomer and a member of the Society of Jesus. He was born in Grave, Netherlands and spend his youth in Maastricht. In 1894 he finished a course of ...more

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John Goodricke Dec. at 22 (1764-1786) John Goodricke FRS was an English amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol in 1782.

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Maarten Schmidt age 88 Maarten Schmidt is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of quasars. Born in Groningen, The Netherlands, Schmidt studied with Jan Hendrik Oort. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Leiden ...more

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Marinus Vertregt Dec. at 76 (1897-1973) Marinus Vertregt was a Dutch astronomer.

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Martin van den Hove Dec. at 34 (1605-1639) Martin van den Hove was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician. His adopted Latin name is a translation of the Dutch hof, in Latin horta.

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Michael van Langren Dec. at 77 (1598-1675) Michael Florent van Langren was a Dutch astronomer and cartographer. His Latinized name is Langrenus.

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Peter Jenniskens age 55 Petrus Matheus Marie Jenniskens is a Dutch and American astronomer and a senior research scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and at NASA Ames Research Center. He is an ...more

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Peter van de Kamp Dec. at 94 (1901-1995) Piet van de Kamp, known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, was a Dutch astronomer who lived most of his life in the United States. He was professor of astronomy at Swarthmore College and ...more

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Petrus Plancius Dec. at 70 (1552-1622) Petrus Plancius was a Flemish astronomer, cartographer and clergyman. He was born as Pieter Platevoet in Dranouter, now in Heuvelland, West Flanders. He studied theology in Germany and England. ...more

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Pieter Johannes van Rhijn Dec. at 74 (1886-1960) Pieter Johannes van Rhijn was a Dutch astronomer. Born in Gouda, he studied at Groningen. He served as director at the Sterrenkundig Laboratorium in Groningen and later served for many years as ...more

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Pieter Oosterhoff Dec. at 74 (1904-1978) Pieter Theodorus Oosterhoff was a Dutch astronomer. He was the co-administrator, along with Jan Oort, of the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. His published papers are primarily in regard ...more

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Tom Gehrels Dec. at 86 (1925-2011) Anton M.J. "Tom" Gehrels was a Dutch-American astronomer, Professor of Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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Uco van Wijk Dec. at 42 (1924-1966) Uco van Wijk was a Dutch astronomer and educator who founded the astronomy program at the University of Maryland and was instrumental in bringing Gart Westerhout from the Netherlands to become ...more

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Willebrord Snellius Dec. at 46 (1580-1626) Willebrord Snellius was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, known in the English-speaking world as Snell. In the west, especially the English speaking countries, his name has been attached to ...more

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Willem de Sitter Dec. at 62 (1872-1934) Willem de Sitter was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

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Willem Hendrik van den Bos Dec. at 78 (1896-1974) Willem Hendrik van den Bos was a Dutch-South African astronomer. At least one source refers to him as Van der Bos, but this seems to be an error. He initially worked at Leiden Observatory in the ...more

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Willem Jacob Luyten Dec. at 95 (1899-1994) Willem Jacob Luyten was a Dutch-American astronomer.