Jan Oort

Jan Oort

male, deceased (1992)
Jan Hendrik Oort (April 28, 1900, Franeker - November 5, 1992, Leiden) was an internationally famous Dutch astronomer. He stimulated radio...
Frederik Kaiser

Frederik Kaiser

male, deceased (1872)
Frederik Kaiser (Amsterdam, June 10, 1808 - Leiden, July 28, 1872) was a Dutch astronomer. He was director of the Leiden Observatory from 1838...

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

female
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld is a Dutch astronomer. In a jointly-credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she...

Tom Gehrels

male, 84 years old
Tom Gehrels (born Feb 21 1925, Haarlem) is a Dutch-American astronomer. He helped to set up the Spacewatch program for finding near-Earth...
Jacobus Kapteyn

Jacobus Kapteyn

male, deceased (1922)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, (January 19, 1851-June 18, 1922) was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as...

Cornelis Johannes van Houten

male, deceased (2002)
Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920 - August 24 2002) was a Dutch astronomer, sometimes referred to as Kees van Houten. Born in The Hague, he spent...
Maarten Schmidt

Maarten Schmidt

male, 79 years old
Maarten Schmidt (born December 28 1929) is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called quasars. Schmidt was born...

H. G. Van De Sande Bakhuyzen

male, deceased (1923)
Hendricus Gerardus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (Apr 2 1838, The Hague - Jan 81923, Leiden) was a Dutch astronomer. His surname, van de Sande Bakhuyzen,...
Gart Westerhout

Gart Westerhout

male, 82 years old
Gart Westerhout (1927-) is a Dutch astronomer. Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established...

Willem Hendrik van den Bos

male, deceased (1974)
Willem Hendrik van den Bos (Sep 25 1896, Rotterdam - Mar 30 1974) was a Dutch-South African astronomer. At least one source refers to him as Van...