Dutch Astronomer
1. Jan Oort (1900)
Dutch Astronomer
Famous for his work in the scientific sub-field of radio astronomy, Oort is particularly known for his discovery of the rotation of the Milky Way and the accompanying lack of...
2. Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921)
Dutch Astronomer
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld is 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 asteroids....
3. Cornelis de Jager (1921)
Dutch Astronomer
Cornelis Kees de Jager is a Dutch astronomer.
4. Lodewijk Woltjer (1930)
Dutch Astronomer
Lodewijk Woltjer studied at the University of Leiden under Jan Oort earning a PhD in astronomy in 1957 with a thesis on the Crab Nebula. This was followed by post-doctoral...
5. Frank Pieter Israel (1946)
Dutch Astronomer
Pieter Israel is a Dutch astronomer. He received his Ph. D. in astronomy at the Leiden Observatory in 1976where he now is Professor. The asteroid 7507 Israel is named for...
6. Piet Hut (1952)
Dutch Astronomer
Piet Hut is a Dutch astrophysicist who divides his time between research in computer simulations of dense stellar systems and broadly interdisciplinary collaborations ranging from other fields in natural science...
7. Govert Schilling (1956)
Dutch Astronomer
Govert Schilling is a Dutch astronomer and popular-science writer.
8. Tim de Zeeuw (Unknow)
Dutch Astronomer
Pieter Timotheus Tim de Zeeuw is a Dutch astronomer specializing in the formation structure and dynamics of galaxies. He was educated atLeiden gaining a degree in mathematics in 1976 and...
9. Dirk Klinkenberg (1709)
Dutch Astronomer
Dutchman Dirk Klinkenberg was secretary of the Dutch government for 40 years.
10. Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (Unknow)
Dutch Astronomer
Johannes Phocylides Holwarda was a Frisian astronomer physician and philosopher. He was professor of philosophy at the University of Franeker from 1639 to 1651. Born in Holwerd he is...
11. Peter Jenniskens (1962)
Dutch Astronomer
Petrus Matheus Marie Jenniskens is a Dutch and US astronomer and a senior research scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and at NASA Ames Research Center....
