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Willem Jacob Luyten
Born
(1899-03-07)March 7, 1899
Semarang, Java, Dutch East Indies
Died
November 21, 1994(1994-11-21) (aged 95)
Minneapolis, United States
Alma mater
Leiden University
Awards
James Craig Watson Medal (1964) Bruce Medal (1968)
Scientific career
Fields
astronomy
Institutions
Lick Observatory, Harvard College Observatory University of Minnesota
Doctoral advisor
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Willem Jacob Luyten (March 7, 1899 – November 21, 1994) was a Dutch-American astronomer.[1][2][3][4][5]
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"Willem Jacob Luyten", Marquis Who's Who, 2006.
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^Abt, H. A. (1968). "Award of the Bruce Gold Medal to Professor Willem J. Luyten". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 80 (474). Astronomical Society of the Pacific: 247–250. Bibcode:1968PASP...80..247A. doi:10.1086/128625.
^Upgren, A. R. (1996). "Willem Jacob Luyten (1899–1994)". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 37 (3). Royal Astronomical Society: 453–456. Bibcode:1996QJRAS..37..453U. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
^Luyten, J. R. (1995). "Willem Jacob Luyten, 1899–1994". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 27 (4). American Astronomical Society: 1480–1481. Bibcode:1995BAAS...27.1480L. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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first recognized in 1910.: 1 The name white dwarf was coined by WillemJacobLuyten in 1922. White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state...
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Named after Miklós Lovas. Luyten's Star, another red dwarf, is named after WillemJacobLuyten, its discoverer. Luyten's Flare Star is a nearby UV Ceti...
means "Luyten, Palomar". GJ 3323 is known at least from 1979, when catalogues of high proper motion objects LHS and NLTT were published by WillemJacob Luyten...
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contributions to the knowledge of the orbits of asteroids." 1964 WillemJacobLuyten "For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of "white-dwarf"...
have a lower density of galaxies. He provided the data that led to WillemJacobLuyten's discovery of UV Ceti, the first known flare star. He was married...
The Harvard Gazette. 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2022-10-19. Luyten, J.R. "Obituary: WillemJacobLuyten, 1899-1994". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society...
Jacob Maris, Hendrik-Willem Mesdag, Alma Tadema and the Italian painter Giovanni Segantini. In the period from 1886 to 1887 Luyten resided in the Borinage...
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a catalogue of faint blue stars published by Guillermo Haro and WillemJacobLuyten in 1962. In 1965, Thomas Kinman observed two faint possible companions...
star by two magnitudes and lasts around 104 days. Dutch astronomer WillemJacobLuyten noted this star to be variable in 1935. Minima were retrospectively...
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