Blaauw, Adriaan (1914–2010)
Dutch astronomer whose studies included the motions of star clusters and
associations, runaway stars (see Blaauw
mechanism), star formation, and
the determination of the cosmic distance scale. Blaauw figured prominently
in international collaborations, including construction of the European
Southern Observatory in Chile, the merger of several European astronomical
journals into Astronomy and Astrophysics, and development of the Hipparcos
astrometric satellite. Educated at the Universities of Leiden and Groningen
in the Netherlands, he worked at Leiden, Yerkes, and Groningen, where he
rebuilt the Kapteyn Astronomical Laboratory into a major research center
on galactic structure.
Adapted in part from the
biographical
entry at The Bruce Medalists website
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