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Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (Barneveld, 19 gennaio 1851 – Amsterdam, 18 giugno 1922) è stato un astronomo olandese che ha condotto importanti studi sulla Via lattea, dimostrando l'esistenza di un centro rotazionale galattico.
Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two star streams.
Jacobus C. Kapteyn - De geboren onderzoeker van de hemel. Lezing voor de KNVWS te Alkmaar in november 2021. These biographies were preceded by proceedings of the Legacy Symposium on Kapteyn, held in Groningen in 1999 and edited by myself and Klaas van Berkel.
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer who used photography and statistical methods in determining the motions and distribution of stars. Kapteyn attended the State University of Utrecht and in 1875 became a member of the staff of Leiden Observatory.
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Government of Germany, Order Pour le Merite for Arts and Sciences, 1915. National Academy of Sciences, James Craig Watson Medal, 1913. Royal Astronomical Society, Gold medal, 1902.
Blaauw, Adriaan, Dictionary of Scientific Biography 7, 235-40. Blaauw, Adriaan, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (Springer, NY, 2007), pp. 611-13. Hertzsprung-Kapteyn, H., The Life and Works of J.C. Kapteyn (Kluwer, Norwell, MA, 1994) [translation by E.R. Paul of book written by Kapteyn’s daughter in 1928, previously published in Space Scie...
Crommelin, A.C.D., Nature 110, 48-49 (1922). Eddington, A.S., Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 102, no. 719, xxix-xxxv (1923). Eddington, A.S., Observatory 45, 261-65 (1922). Jeans, J., MNRAS 83, 250-255 (1923). Seares, F.H., PASP 34, 233-253 (1922). van Maanen, A., Ap.J. 56, 145-53 (1922). van Rhijn, P.J., Popular Astronomy 30, 628-32 ...
Lunar crater Kapteyn Minor Planet #818 Kapteynia Kapteyn’s Star – the second fastest star known. Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen The Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope Kapteyn Cottage at Mount Wilson Kapteyn Series
24 dic 2016 · Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn made his most important contributions to the study of stellar statistics, i.e., the determination of the numbers and types of stars in different parts of space and their motions.
This non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy.
