Category:Adriaan Blaauw

**Adriaan Blaauw**
	Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw en 1991.
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Date of birth	12 April 1914; Amsterdam
Date of death	1 December 2010; Groningen
Country of citizenship	Kingdom of the Netherlands;
Educated at	Leiden University; University of Groningen;
Doctoral advisor	Pieter Johannes van Rhijn;
Doctoral student	Hugo van Woerden; Tjeerd van Albada; Lucien Lucas Eduard Braes; Floor van Leeuwen; Eugène de Geus;
Occupation	astronomer; university teacher;
Employer	University of Groningen; European Southern Observatory; Leiden University (Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, lecturer, 1948–); Leiden University (Dutch ordinary professor, 1973–1981);
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; International Astronomical Union; Academia Europaea (AE section Earth and cosmic sciences, 1993–);
Position held	president (International Astronomical Union, 1976–1979); ESO’s Director General (1970–1974);
Field of work	astronomy;
Native language	Dutch;
Award received	Bruce Medal (1989); Prix Jules Janssen (1978); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Q126888916 (2004);
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	Q360028; ISNI: 0000000114625878; VIAF ID: 93893329; GND ID: 133554791; Library of Congress authority ID: n80139534; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 130845802; IdRef ID: 083145575; Libraries Australia ID: 35950101; NL CR AUT ID: mub2013761467; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 069400148; NORAF ID: 90744101; NUKAT ID: n02728292; J9U ID: 987007332937605171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA00086866; Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren author ID: blaa023; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 112242
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