Adriaan Blaauw#
| Email: | blaauw 'at' home.nl |
| Membership Number: | 1331 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Username: | ablaauw |
Positions held
Adriaan Blaauw passed away December 1, 2010.
- 1975 - 1981 full professor at Leiden University
- 1976 - 1979 president of the International Astronomical Union
- 1970 to 1975 general director of the European Southern Observatory
- 1957 director of the "Kapteyn Astronomical Institute" in Groningen
- 1953 - 1957 employment at the Yerkes Observatory
- 1948 associate professor at Leiden
- studies in Leiden and Groningen, doctorate with van Rhijn at the Kapteyn Laboratory in Groningen in 1946, with a thesis entitled “A study of the Scorpio–Centaurus cluster”.
Fields of Scholarship
- star formation
- motions of star clusters and stellar associations
- distance scale
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Bruce Medal
- 1997 the University of Groningen instituted a Blaauw chair and Blaauw lecture in Adriaan Blaauw's honour
- the asteroid 2145 Blaauw and the Blaauw Observatory are named after Adriaan Blaauw
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