Adriaan Blaauw#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1331 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Adriaan Blaauw passed away December 1, 2010.
Positions held
- 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
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
