Pieter C Van Der Kruit: 2 books
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
Born Investigator of the Heavens
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1851-1922) was a Dutch astronomer who contributed heavily to major catalogs of star positions, such as the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung and the Harvard-Groningen Durchmusterung, and arranged extensive international collaboration through his Plan of Selected Areas. He contributed...
Jan Hendrik Oort
Master of the Galactic System
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the development of our insight and a profound influence on the international organization and cooperation in his area...