Dirk Brouwer

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Dirk Brouwer (Sep 1, 1902, Rotterdam – Jan 31, 1966, New Haven) was a Dutch-American astronomer.

He received his Ph.D. in 1927 at Leiden University in the Netherlands and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the Astronomical Journal.

He specialized in celestial mechanics and wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics.

Contents 1 Awards 2 Named after him 3 External links 3.1 Obituaries

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] Named after him

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

[edit] External links

• Bruce Medal page
• Awarding of Bruce medal
• Awarding of RAS gold medal

[edit] 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