Dirk Brouwer

Template:Short description Template:For Template:Infobox scientist Dirk Brouwer ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; September 1, 1902 – January 31, 1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

He received his PhD in 1927 at Leiden University under Willem de Sitter<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the Astronomical Journal.

He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics.

Awards

• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1955)
• Bruce Medal (1966)

Named after him

• Asteroid 1746 Brouwer
• The crater Brouwer on the Moon (jointly with mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer)
• Dirk Brouwer Award of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society
• Dirk Brouwer Award of the American Astronautical Society

External links

• Bruce Medal page
• Awarding of Bruce medal
• Awarding of RAS gold medal
• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir

Obituaries

• AJ 71 (1966) 76 (one paragraph)
• Obs 86 (1966) 92 (one line)
• PASP 78 (1966) 104 (one line, see also [1])
• QJRAS 8 (1967) 84

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