!!!Lodewijk Woltjer
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Lodewijk Woltjer passed away August 25, 2019.
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__Positions Held__
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*1994 - 1997 President of the International Astronomical Union
*1991 - 1993 Co-founder and President of the European Astronomical Society
*1975 - 1987 Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
*1964 - 1974 Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, USA
*1964 - 1972 Chairman of the Astronomy Department, Columbia University, New York, USA
*1961 - 1964 Professor of theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics in the University of Leiden
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__

*1974 Chairman, High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society
*1975 Benjamin Apthorp Gould Medal, National Academy of Sciences, USA
*1075 Gould Prize, National Academy of Sciences, USA
*1982 Honorary Doctorate, University of Basel
*1985 Honorary Doctorate, University of Lund
*1987 Ridder in De Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw, the Netherlands
*1987 Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Astronomische Gesellschaft
*1988 Grosses Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens Deutschland, Germany
*1988 Janssen Medal, Académie des sciences
*1988 Honorary Doctorate, University of Bologna
*1991 Honorary Doctorate, University of Liège
*1992 Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, France
*2002 Honorary Doctorate, University of Geneva
*Eponym of the Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture award, given by the European Astronomical Society

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