How to Pronounce Jan Woltjer (astronomer)
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Aug 03, 1891 Died on 28 Jan 1946 (aged 54)
Dutch astronomer (1891-1946)
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About Jan Woltjer Astronomer
- Jan Woltjer (3 August 1891, Amsterdam – 28 January 1946, Leiden) was a Dutch astronomer. Woltjer was the son of the classical scholar Jan Woltjer.
- On 13 December 1916 he married Hillegonda de Vries in Groningen.
- He worked and taught at Leiden University, where Gerard P.
- Kuiper was one of his students.
- He was the father of the astronomer Lodewijk Woltjer (born 1930), who was the director general of the European Southern Observatory from 1975 to 1987.
- The crater Woltjer on the Moon and the asteroid 1795 Woltjer are both named after him.
