Editing Dirk Brouwer (section)

{{Short description|Dutch-American astronomer}}
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{{Infobox scientist
|name              = Dirk Brouwer
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|birth_date        = {{Birth date|1902|9|1|}}
|birth_place       = [[Rotterdam]], Netherlands
|death_date        = {{death date and age|1966|1|31|1902|9|1}}
|death_place       = [[New Haven]], US
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|citizenship       = 
|nationality       = Dutch
|ethnicity         = 
|field             = [[astronomy]]
|work_institutions = 
|alma_mater        = [[Leiden University]]
|doctoral_advisor  = [[Willem de Sitter]]<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=112205|name=Dirk Brouwer}}</ref>
|doctoral_students = [[Brian G. Marsden]]<br>[[Jean Kovalevsky]]
|known_for         = [[celestial mechanics]]
|influences        = 
|influenced        = 
|prizes            = [[Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society]] (1955)<br/>[[Bruce Medal]] (1966)
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}}
'''Dirk Brouwer''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈdɪr(ə)ɡ ˈbrʌu.ər}}; September 1, 1902 – January 31, 1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary: Dirk Brouwer|journal=Physics Today|date=March 1966|volume=19|issue=3|pages=108–109|url=http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v19/i3/p108_s2?bypassSSO=1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130917142834/http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v19/i3/p108_s2?bypassSSO=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-09-17|doi=10.1063/1.3048090|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He received his PhD in 1927 at [[Leiden University]] under [[Willem de Sitter]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |year=2009 |publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |accessdate=August 22, 2012 |url=http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58212.html}}</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''.