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Adriaan Blaauw

1914 - 2010

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Adriaan Blaauw (12 April 1914 – 1 December 2010) was a Dutch astronomer. Blaauw was born in Amsterdam to Cornelis Blaauw and Gesina Clasina Zwart, and studied at Leiden University and the University of Groningen, obtaining his doctorate at the latter in 1946. In 1948, he was appointed an associate professor at Leiden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adriaan Blaauw has received more than 24,938 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Adriaan Blaauw is the 232nd most popular astronomer (up from 234th in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 423rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Dutch Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 232 out of 644. Before him are Antonín Mrkos, Cyril Jackson, Alexis Bouvard, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Nancy Roman, and Wilhelm Beer. After him are Wang Zhenyi, Maximilian Hell, Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, Agrippa, Cleostratus, and Johannes Schöner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 130. Before him are Brunó Ferenc Straub, Paul Tortelier, Georgy Babakin, Infante Gonzalo of Spain, Saul Steinberg, and Lakshmi Sahgal. After him are Sergej Kraigher, Giorgio Almirante, Ken Annakin, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Ralph Erskine, and George Tabori. Among people deceased in 2010, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 124. Before him are Jean Ferrat, Claude Lefort, Emilio Eduardo Massera, Rue McClanahan, Anatoly Dobrynin, and Luis García Berlanga. After him are Raymond Franz, Tom Bosley, John Leslie, Alain Corneau, Anna Walentynowicz, and Giuseppe Taddei.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 420 out of 1,646. Before him are Caspar van Wittel (1653), Adriaen van de Venne (1589), Jordi Cruyff (1974), Jan Janssonius (1588), Co Adriaanse (1947), and George Knobel (1922). After him are Frits Bolkestein (1933), Matthias Stom (1600), Johannes Willebrands (1909), Barend Biesheuvel (1920), Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594), and Virgil van Dijk (1991).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Netherlands

Among astronomers born in Netherlands, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 10. Before him are Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920), Tom Gehrels (1925), John Goodricke (1764), Antonie Pannekoek (1873), Peter van de Kamp (1901), and Jacobus Kapteyn (1851). After him are Walter Lewin (1936), Michael van Langren (1598), Maarten Schmidt (1929), Eise Eisinga (1744), Adriaan van Maanen (1884), and Bart Bok (1906).

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