Gale Bruno van Albada
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Gale Bruno Van Albada (Mar 28, 1911 — Dec 18, 1972) was a Dutch astronomer.
Van Albada obtained his Ph.D. with Antonie Pannekoek at the University of Amsterdam in 1945. He shared Pannekoek's communist ideologies and back in the 1930s his brother Piet van Albada had been an associate of Marinus van der Lubbe. Van Albada was director of the Bosscha Observatory on Java from May 1949 to 1960. In 1950 he married the astronomer Elsa van Dien. In 1960, he succeeded Pannekoek heading the department of astronomy at the University of Amsterdam.
The Van Albada crater, on the Moon, is named after him
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